Old Noll (1743 ship)
Old Noll was a privateer operated by a group of merchants from Liverpool, England during the War of the Austrian Succession.[1]
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name | Old Noll |
| Owner | Charles Goore William Bulkeley Samuel Reid John Clayton Levinus Unsworth Arthur Heywood Isaac Oldham Thomas Backhouse Joseph Manesty Nathaniel Basnett Samuel Ogden Thomas Seel, junior John Knight William Whalley John Parr William Penketh James Ross Edward Roughsedge James Gildart Ellis Cunliffe Robert Cunliffe John Brookes John Hardman William Williamson Roger Brooks John Bostock John Atherton Edward Forbes |
| Builder | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Launched | 1743 |
| Acquired | 1744 |
| Fate | Sunk, 1745 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hackboat |
| Tons burthen | 250 tons |
| Complement | 180 |
| Armament | 22 guns |
After a brief but successful career as a privateer, she was sunk in November 1745 by a French naval squadron from Brest.[1][2]
References
- Wardle, Arthur C. (1941). "The Early Liverpool privateers" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire. 93.
- Harrison, Cy Harrison. "British Privateer 'Old Noll' (1744)". threedecks.org. Cy Harrison. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
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