HMS Stirling Castle (1775)

HMS Stirling Castle was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Israel Pownoll and launched on 28 June 1775 at Chatham Dockyard.

Stirling Castle was wrecked on 5 October 1780 on the Silver Keys, off Cap-François, off the coast of Cuba with the loss of most of her crew. As the Massachusetts ship Aurora was sailing from Boston to Port-au-Prince she came upon the wreckage of Stirling Castle and was able to save a midshipman and four seamen.

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Bibliography

• Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot).
• Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. .