HMS Lark (1762)

HMS Lark (1762)

HMS "Lark" was a 32 gun frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1762 [cite web |url= http://auvfest08.icw-ietm-solutions.com/inwater_ops_site_description.shtml |title= Archaeological Sites Under Investigation at AUVfest 2008 |accessdate= 2008-04-02] and destroyed 1778 during the American Revolutionary War, in Narragansett Bay. [cite book |title= Shipwrecks in the Americas|last= Marx |first= Robert F. |authorlink= Robert F. Marx|coauthors= |year= 1987 |publisher= Dover Publications|location= |isbn= 048625514X |pages= p. 152] The remains of the Lark are now part of a National Historic Site, the "Wreck Sites of H.M.S. Cerberus and H.M.S. Lark."

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