HMAT Supply (1759)

Replica of HMAT Supply in Sydney Harbour in 1938
History
Great Britain
Name	HMAT Supply
Ordered	4 April 1759
Builder	Henry Bird, Rotherhithe
Laid down	1 May 1759
Launched	5 October 1759
Commissioned	17 October 1759
Decommissioned	21 April 1792
Out of service	17 July 1792
Fate	Sold out of Navy service for £600
Great Britain
Name	Thomas and Nancy
Acquired	1792 by purchase for £600
Fate	Last listed in 1806
General characteristics
Class and type	Yard Craft (1759-86) Armed Tender (1786-92)
Tons burthen	17476⁄94 or 186[1] (bm)
Length	79 ft 4 in (24.2 m) overall 64 ft 11 in (19.8 m) (keel)
Beam	22 ft 6 in (6.9 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 6 in (3.5 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	14 as yard craft (1759-86) 55 as armed tender (1786-92)
Armament	As yard craft: 4 × 3-pounder guns + 6 × 1⁄2-pounder swivels As armed tender: 4 × 3-pounder guns, 4 × 12-pounder carronades

Launched in 1759, the third Supply was a Royal Navy armed tender that played an important part in the foundation of the Colony of New South Wales.^[2] The Navy sold her in 1792. She then served commercially until about 1806.

HMAT Supply (1759) is not to be confused with the replacement vessel HMS Supply (1793), a 10-gun storeship, of 388 tons (bm), originally the American mercantile New Brunswick, which the Admiralty purchased in 1793 as an armed vessel for the colony at Port Jackson and was broken up there in 1806.