![]() Replica of HMAT Supply in Sydney Harbour in 1938
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Name | HMAT Supply |
Ordered | 4 April 1759 |
Builder | Henry Bird, Rotherhithe |
Laid down | 1 May 1759 |
Launched | 5 October 1759 |
Commissioned | 17 October 1759 |
Decommissioned | 21 April 1792 |
Out of service | 17 July 1792 |
Fate | Sold out of Navy service for £600 |
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Name | Thomas and Nancy |
Acquired | 1792 by purchase for £600 |
Fate | Last listed in 1806 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type |
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Tons burthen | 17476⁄94 or 186[1] (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 22 ft 6 in (6.9 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement |
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Armament |
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Launched in 1759, the third Supply was a Royal Navy armed tender that played an important part in the foundation of the Colony of New South Wales.[2] The Navy sold her in 1792. She then served commercially until about 1806.
HMAT Supply (1759) is not to be confused with the replacement vessel HMS Supply (1793), a 10-gun storeship, of 388 tons (bm), originally the American mercantile New Brunswick, which the Admiralty purchased in 1793 as an armed vessel for the colony at Port Jackson and was broken up there in 1806.
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