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    HMS Latona was a 36-gun, fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the...
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  • name HMS Latona, after the Romanised name of the character Leto, of Greek mythology: HMS Latona (1781) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1781. She was...
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    HMS Anson was a ship of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781. Originally a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, she fought at the Battle...
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  • Bellerophon, Vanguard, Phoenix, Latona, and Phaeton. In 1798 Nelson was detached into the Mediterranean by Earl St. Vincent with HMS Orion, Alexander, Emerald...
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  • launched in 1781 that HMS Latona and HMS Phaeton (1782) captured in 1793. The Royal Navy took her into service as the 28-gun sixth rate HMS Blonde. She...
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    HMS Astraea (or Astrea) was a 32-gun fifth rate Active-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Fabian at E. Cowes launched her in 1781, and she saw action in...
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    Edward Hunt HMS Minerva 1780 – broken up 1803 HMS Arethusa 1781 – broken up 1814 HMS Phaeton 1782 – Sold 1827 HMS Latona 38-gun fifth rate 1781, designed...
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  • captured in 1760 by HMS Aeolus and taken into service as HMS Blonde. She was wrecked in 1782. Blonde, launched in 1781, that HMS Latona and Phaeton captured...
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  • HMS Childers (1778) a 10-gun sloop Flora-class frigate (1778) a series of four 36-gun frigates L'Experiment (1779) 50-gun ship of the line HMS Latona...
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    Napoleonic Wars. The last to be built, HMS Romulus was ordered in December 1781 by which time, Williams' Latona-class frigate was in service, a 38-gun...
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  • Bellerophon, Vanguard, Phoenix, Latona, and Phaeton. Some reports attribute the actual capture to Phaeton and Latona. The Royal Navy classed Blonde as...
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    HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781. She served in three wars and made a number of notable...
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    The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle that took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, contemporaneously related to the American...
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    lower shrouds had been cut to pieces. Hope then signalled the frigate HMS Latona to tow Bellerophon clear of the action. Despite being under heavy fire...
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    north into the Atlantic Ocean for two days until the frigates HMS Horatio and HMS Latona were able to bring her to action. In a bitterly contested running...
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    under Captain James Boorder, the 12-gun hired cutter Courier, and Juno and Latona, which sent their boats, mounted an attack on Crash, which was moored between...
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    HMS America was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and was...
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    by the Royal Navy's HMS Diamond. Lark ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by the Spanish and was taken in to Vigo, Spain. Latona ( Portugal): The ship...
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  • and HMS Valiant forced the crew of the French frigate Harmonie to scuttle their vessel to prevent her capture. On 15 October, Melampus and Latona, and...
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    HMS Camilla was a Royal Navy 20-gun Sphinx-class post ship. Camilla was built in Chatham Dockyard to a design by John Williams and was launched in 1776...
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    naval blockade. Britain successfully resupplied Gibraltar in both 1780 and 1781, and recognized the need to do so again in 1782. The matter was seen as critical...
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    Sroertjes, master, and Endraght, Claas Boertjes, master. Cruizer shared with Latona, Astraea, and the hired armed cutter Courier in the proceeds from the capture...
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    French 36-gun frigate, 900 tons, Captured by HMS Latona, a 38-gun frigate commanded by Captain Hugh Pigot. HMS Alert |  Royal Navy | 10 August 1809 An 18-gun...
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    appointed to Uranie, from which, a few months later, he was moved into HMS Latona, again attached to the fleet off Brest, and again sent with convoy to...
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  • 1907 ZQ Moirai (Moira), Greek goddess of fate DMP · 638 639 Latona 1907 ZT Roman goddess Latona, daughter of Ceo Titan, loved by Jupiter, and mother of Apollo...
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    Brisbane's squadron and joined Brisbane's Arethusa and James Athol Wood's HMS Latona. The ships were despatched in November 1806 by Vice-Admiral James Richard...
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  • Legge to HMS Latona, had a stint as acting commander of HMS Gibraltar and in April 1795 he was in temporary command of the bomb vessel HMS Terror. He...
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