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    HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and initially served in Sir Edward Hawke's...
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  • have been called HMS Pallas. See Pallas (disambiguation) for various figures called "Pallas" in Greek mythology. The first HMS Pallas (1757) was a 36-gun...
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    1828. HMS Pallas 1757 – ran aground on São Jorge Island and sank 1783 HMS Brilliant 1757 – sold 1776 Southampton class 32-gun fifth rates 1757–59; designed...
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  • borne the name HMS Shannon, after the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland: HMS Shannon (1757) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and broken...
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    HMS Pallas was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Placed in ordinary when completed in 1816, Pallas was commissioned for the first...
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    against France. Her first engagement was on 19 December 1757 when, in company with the 28-gun HMS Coventry, she encountered the French privateer Diamond...
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    1797 at Basse-Indre – captured by the British Navy 1803, becoming HMS Creole. Pallas, (design by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait and modified by François Pestel;...
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    HMS Augusta was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and...
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    aboard HMS Unicorn. He was still serving in this position in 1757, at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War between France and England. In May 1757, Unicorn...
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    HMS Essex was a 70-gun third rate built by Sir Henry Johnson of Blackwall in 1678/79. During the War of the English Succession she fought in the last...
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    in 1757. In 1763 he was given command of HMS Grafton and in 1770 he took over HMS Northumberland. He went on to command HMS Pallas from 1778 and HMS Exeter...
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    hope of intercepting the enemy squadron. Aeolus was joined by HMS Brilliant and HMS Pallas and the three frigates attacked the French squadron under François...
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  • Also there sheltering from the weather were the 36-gun ships HMS Brilliant and HMS Pallas. Elliot rushed his ships to sea and arrived off Carrickfergus...
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    George Vancouver (1757–1798) was to become a celebrated explorer himself and William Bligh (1754–1817) who would later command HMS Bounty, James King...
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    miles (4.6 km) from the French fleet, supported by frigates HMS Aigle, HMS Unicorn and HMS Pallas. This force would collect the crews of the fireships as...
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    1757 at Toulon, designed by Joseph Marie Blaise Coulomb) – captured by the British in the Battle of Lagos in August 1759 and added to the RN as HMS Centaur...
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    sold 1792 Achilles 60 (1757) – hulked 1778 America 60 (1757) – broken up 1771 Montague class ("Admiralty" design) Montague 60 (1757) – sunk as a breakwater...
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    while Pallas and Brilliant went to deal with the remaining French vessels, one of which, Terpsichore attempted to escape but was easily caught by Pallas. François...
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  • Launched Completed Fate Ref. HMS Pallas 13 July 1756 William Wells & Company, Deptford Dockyard July 1756 30 August 1757 8 October 1757 at Deptford Run ashore...
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    ( Spain): The ship was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Diamond. She was taken in to Plymouth, Devon. Pallas ( United States): The ship was captured by the...
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  • Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer) (category 1757 births)
    Admiral Sir Thomas Pakenham GCB (29 September 1757 – 2 February 1836), styled The Honourable from birth to 1820, was an Anglo-Irish naval officer and politician...
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    Louis Daniel Arnault de Nobleville publishes Histoire naturelle des animaux 1757 – Michel Adanson publishes Histoire naturelle du Senegal. 1758 – Carl Linnaeus...
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  • Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives. 19 December – Frigates HMS Nymphe and HMS Pallas are wrecked near Dunbar. Monach Islands abandoned for the first...
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    of Vernet was affixed as painter. The ship has been identified as HMS Neptune (1757). The engraving embellishes the original painting, adding the words...
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