HMS Liberty (1768)

History
Great Britain
Name	Liberty
Owner	John Hancock
Captured	June 1768
Great Britain
Name	Liberty
Acquired	June 1768
Fate	Scuttled and burned, Newport, Rhode Island, July 1769
General characteristics
Class and type	Sloop

Liberty was a sloop owned by John Hancock, an American merchant, whose seizure was the subject of the Liberty Affair. Seized by customs officials in Boston in 1768, it was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Liberty, and she was burned the next year by American colonists in Newport, Rhode Island in one of the first acts of open defiance against the British crown by American colonists.

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History

Great Britain
Name	Liberty
Owner	John Hancock
Captured	June 1768
Great Britain
Name	Liberty
Acquired	June 1768^[1]
Fate	Scuttled and burned, Newport, Rhode Island, July 1769
General characteristics
Class and type	Sloop^[2]