HMS Senegal

Two vessels that served the Royal Navy have been named Senegal:

• Senegal was launched at Rotherhithe on 26 December 1760 as a 14-gun sloop of 292 tons (bm). She grounded while attempting to enter the harbour at Canso, Nova Scotia, on 22 August 1764 and foundered while being towed into the harbour.[1] It was later commanded by Sir Thomas Rich in 1769 and by William Duddingston in 1771.[2]
• Senegal was a sloop of 183 tons (formerly named Racehorse) that the Royal Navy purchased in 1777 and armed with 16 guns. The French captured her on 15 August 1778.[3] HMS Zephyr recaptured her on 2 November 1780 off the Gambia River, but she blew up by accident at Gorée on 22 November.[4][5]

Citations

1. Hepper (1994), p. 47.
2. .https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=368
3. Hepper (1994), p. 53.
4. "No. 12169". The London Gazette. 10 March 1781. p. 2.
5. Hepper (1994), p. 60.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.