HMS Fowey (1749)

Lord Dunmore fleeing to HMS Fowey (1907 illustration)
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Fowey
Owner:	Royal Navy
General characteristics

HMS Fowey was a sixth-rate warship of the Royal Navy. Built in 1749, the ship was sunk during the Siege of Yorktown in 1781. The ship is noted as having received Lord Dunmore, the governor of the Colony of Virginia, when he fled the colony for safety during the beginning of the American Revolution, marking the last departure of a Royal Governor from the colony. The National Park Service has identified it as a probably candidate for a wreck located off Yorktown in the York River.