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ST. ALBANS
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4th rate
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Built in 1737, Plymouth DY.
Wrecked in 1744. |
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- Capt. William KNIGHT, On 17 June the ST. ALBANS returned to Jamaica from a cruise, with a large Spanish settee called the Nostra Senora de Monserrat, of 18 carriage guns and 20 swivels, taken about 9 leagues to windward of Carthagena., to which place she was bound from Cadiz, and had near 200 men on board, of which 57 were Ecclesiastics. At first she made a sign of resistance by firing several shot at the ST. ALBANS, but soon ran ashore to give the people an opportunity of making their escape, which many of them did. The ST ALBANS got the vessel off and she proves a considerable prize.
- She was lost, along with four other naval vessels and their crews, in a hurricane which struck Jamaica on 20th. October 1744.
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