HMS Lark (1762)

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Lark
Ordered24 March 1761
BuilderElias Bird, Rotherhithe
Laid down5 May 1761
Launched10 May 1762
Completed9 July 1762 at Deptford Dockyard
CommissionedMay 1762
FateBurnt to avoid capture at Newport, Rhode Island, 5 August 1778
General characteristics
Class & typeRichmond-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen680 61⁄94 bm
Length
  • 127 ft 2 in (38.76 m) (gundeck)
  • 108 ft 0+3⁄8 in (32.928 m) (keel)
Beam34 ft 5 in (10.49 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 0+1⁄2 in (3.670 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement210 officers and men
Armament
  • Upperdeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Lark was a 32-gun Richmond-class frigate fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1762 and destroyed in Narragansett Bay in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.

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