High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Preston was a 40-gun Fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Woodbridge, and launched in 1653. After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, her name was changed to HMS Antelope. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns. In 1681 James Story, captain of Antelope, conducted a census of the Avalon colony (now Ferryland, Newfoundland) and on 1 September 1681, wrote 'An Account of what fishing Ships, Sack Ships, Planters and Boatkeepers from Trepassey to Bonavista...'

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