Name HMS Trent Laid down 19 May 1757 Commissioned September 1757 Launched 31 October 1757 | Ordered 5 May 1757 Completed 23 November 1757 Construction started 19 May 1757 Builder Woolwich Dockyard | |
Fate Sold to be taken to pieces at Portsmouth 26 January 1764 | ||
HMS Trent was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
Construction
The Trent was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak. Fir was cheaper and more abundant than oak and permitted noticeably faster construction, but at a cost of a reduced lifespan; the four fir-built Coventry-class vessels that did not get captured lasted an average of only nine years before being struck off.
References
HMS Trent (1757) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA