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ROEBUCK
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5th rate
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Built in 1743, Southampton.
Sold in 1764. |
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- 1744 Capt. Thomas STURTON. He was ordered out with Sir Charles HARDY's squadron, but after being separated he fell in with and captured after an action lasting an hour, about 50 leagues to the westward of Cape Finisterre, a Spanish register ship from San Sebastian to La Guira, of 18 guns and 157 men, She was carrying mainly bale goods and cordage worth in Spain 220,000 pieces of eight.
- 1745 Capt. John WELLER, November.
- 1746 Capt. Robert WELLARD, 31 May, who soon after removed to the HASTINGS.
- On 28th. February 1749 in a trial at the London Guildhall before Lord Chief Justice Willes, Samuel WILKINSON, a barber belonging to ROEBUCK, obtained a verdict for 300 L against George WILSON, boatswain, who had assaulted him, beating out the plaintiff's right eye. After WILKINSON had refused the captain's recommendation that they should settle the affair for 30 L there was an attempt to turn him over from ship to ship, to prevent him coming to England.
- Capt. Marriot ARBUTHNOT.
- 1757 Capt. John HOLLWELL.
- 1759 Capt. Capt. Thomas LYNN.
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