• HMS Vestal was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Vestal was first commissioned in November 1779 under the command of Captain...
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  • in 1779. She became a troopship in 1800, was lent to Trinity House in 1803 and was sold in 1816. HMS Vestal (1809) – see HCS Vestal below HMS Vestal (1833)...
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  • in 1759 by HMS Vestal and foundered in 1776. HMS Repulse (1779) was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1779 and in the records until 1781. HMS Repulse (1780)...
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    She was launched by the French in 1779. The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian...
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    1814, sold 1816 HMS Cyclops 1779 – converted to troopship in 1800, hulked as receiving ship at Portsmouth in 1807, sold 1814 HMS Vestal 1779 – converted to...
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    HMS Surprise (or Surprize) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, which served throughout the American Revolutionary War...
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    James Cook (category 1779 deaths)
    October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean...
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  • hired armed ship Two Sisters off Northern Scotland. In 1779 he joined the frigate HMS Vestal, then under the command of Captain George Cranfield Berkeley...
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    Penobscot Expedition (category 1779 in the United States)
    Collier HMS Raisonnable (64 guns) HMS Greyhound (32 guns) HMS Blonde (32 guns) HMS Virginia (32 guns) HMS Galatea (20 guns) HMS Camilla (20 guns) HMS Nautilus...
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  • launched at King's Yard in Harwich in 1756/7 HMS Vestal a 32-gun frigate launched at King's Yard in Harwich in 1757 HMS Conqueror a 68-gun ship of the line launched...
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    died during the journey, as Vestal passed through the Strait of Banca, and the ship returned to England. Strachan and Vestal were then ordered to the East...
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    HMS Royal George was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A first-rate with 100 guns on three decks, she was the largest warship in the world at the...
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  • HMS Monsieur was the former 40-gun French privateer Monsieur, built at Le Havre between July 1778 and 1779, then armed at Granville. The Royal Navy captured...
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    Cul-de-Sac. In August 1779, he brought a convoy from St Kitts to Spithead. On 10 December 1780, St Albans, in company with Vestal, Monsieur, Portland and...
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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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  • The French brig Duc de Chartres was built between 1779 and 1780 at Le Havre as a 24-gun privateer. As a privateer she captured one British warship before...
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  • Revolutionary War. He is best known as the commander of the naval forces of the 1779 Penobscot Expedition, which ended in complete disaster, with all ships lost...
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    War. Established in 1775, all of its ships were destroyed or captured by 1779. In the remaining years of the war a few smaller ships were commissioned...
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    appointed Blane as his personal physician aboard HMS Sandwich. Blane was appointed Physician to the Fleet (1779–1783) and accompanied Rodney, initially to pursue...
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    to be in Cirebon, a force was landed there from HMS Lion, HMS Nisus, HMS President, HMS Phoebe and HMS Hesper on 4 September, causing the defenders to...
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    brig-sloop. Latouche captured the brig, HMS Racoon. Latouche then tacked into the Delaware River, as HMS Vestal, HMS Bonetta, and the prize Sophie, led by...
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    lugger Speculator, which was followed within hours by the cutters Active and Vestal who brought detailed accounts of De Winter's movements. All of the accounts...
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    Congress. He served as the second governor of revolutionary Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In 1785, Congress appointed Jefferson U.S. minister to France, where...
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    to join Rowley at Rodriguez. The first two frigates to arrive, HMS Africaine and HMS Ceylon were both attacked while sailing alone and captured by Hamelin's...
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    an American diplomat who had been apprehended by the British cruiser HMS Vestal in September 1780, on the high seas. He had been sent by the Continental...
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    made, with the siege of 1727, and again with the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779 to 1783), during the American War of Independence.[citation needed] After...
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    (1764) HMS Carysfort (1766) HMS Bristol (1775) HMS Polyphemus (1782) HMS Mermaid (1784) HMS Daedelus (1826) HMS Vestal (1833) HMS Salamander (1832) - one...
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    captured HMS Racoon off the Delaware River on 12 September 1782. The following day, a small British squadron consisting of HMS Vestal, HMS Bonetta, and...
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    salt to North American ports.: 389–415  In June 1776, HMS Nautilus secured the island, followed by HMS Galatea in September. Yet, the two British captains...
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    according to the Attainder Act of 1779 passed by the Third Session of the New York Legislature on 22 October 1779. These were later sold by auction along...
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