HMS Shrewsbury was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 February 1758 at Deptford Dockyard.Winfield 2007, p. 58
Service history 1758 In March 1758 the newly commissioned Shrewsbury, captained by Hugh Palliser joined forces with the smaller warships HMS Unicorn and HMS Lizard off Brest where the French frigate Calypso was destroyed in Audierne Bay on 12 September.
1759 From February 1759 Shrewsbury was in the North American theatre, and was at the campaign against the French in Quebec which came to a conclusion on 13 September that year.
1760 and 1761 From the summer of 1760 Shrewsbury served in the Mediterranean Sea, forcing the French squadron from Toulon to seek protection in the Crete harbour of Candia.Website morethannelson In 1761, whilst enforcing the blockade of French ports in the Mediterranean during the Seven Years' War, Shrewsbury, stopped, searched and detained the Danish ship Den Flyvende Engel which was at that time part of a convoy escorted by .In the same reference (at page 30-31) Andersen analyses the cynical use of a neutral Royal Danish Navy ship to escort private French cargoes masquerading as Danish to break the British blockade of French ports. The captain of HMS Shrewsbury saw through the scam, and negotiated the capture of Den Flyvende Engel without a shot being fired.
1762 On 18 September 1762 HMS Shrewsbury, together with her squadron of , and , arrived off St John's, Newfoundland just a few hours after the town had capitulated to Lord Colville's forces,London Gazette Issue 10251 page 4 dated 9 October 1762 the French naval squadron under Charles Ternay having escaped the British blockade in fog on 15 September.
Fate In 1783, she was condemned and scuttled.Ships of the Old Navy, Shrewsbury.
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References Michael Phillips. Shrewsbury (74) (1758). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 31 August 2008.