HMS Granado (1742) was launched at Harwich in 1742, during the
War of the Austrian Succession, as a
sloop-of-war. During this war, she captured a French
privateer. During the
Seven Years' War, she served both as a sloop and as a
bomb vessel, and participated in naval operations off the coast of France and in the West Indies. After the Navy sold her in 1763, she became the mercantile Prince Frederick. Around 1775, she became the
whalerPrudence in the
northern whale fishery. Around 1781, she became a government transport; she was wrecked on 20 May 1782 on the coast of India.
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