ASTRAEA
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Storeship
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Taken in 1739. Accidently burnt in 1743. |
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- 1743 Capt. SWANTON, N. America.
- The following account of his Majesty's ship ASTRAEA being burnt at Piscaraway [Piscatagua] was received from Capt. SWANTON.
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 20th.
- Tuesday, 17th. Instant, about Two in the Morning, a Fire broke out in the Fore Hold, and instantly the Beams under the Fore Castle were in a Blaze. We laboured hard, and once thought we had got the better of it; but the Water a-long-side was no longer in the Buckets but it became Ice, so that scarce delivered a Quart; by which Means the Fire broke out again with great Violence, and rendered all our efforts to extinguish it vain; for in a few Hours she was burnt down to the Water Edge. Most of the Officers Stores were a-shore, the Powder in the public Magazines, and, as all the Guns fell into the Wreck, I shall have no great Difficulty in recovering them.
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