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    Magicienne was a frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. The British captured her in 1781 and she served with the Royal Navy until her crew...
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  • of the French Navy have borne the name Magicienne, after magicienne (feminine of magician): Magicienne (1778), a 32-gun ship, captured by HMS Chatham...
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    Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb. Magicienne Builder: Toulon Ordered: 7 February 1777 Begun: March 1777 Launched: 1 August 1778 Completed: October 1778 Fate: captured by...
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  • Action of 2 September 1781 (category Naval battles of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783))
    American War of Independence; HMS Chatham captured the French frigate Magicienne after a fight of a few hours. On 2 September, the British fifty gun fourth...
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    Samuel Pym (category 1778 births)
    and Magicienne ran aground and became unmanoeuverable. The Nereide struck her colours before the French frigates, and the Sirius and Magicienne were...
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  • reported that on 2 September Chatham had captured the French frigate Magicienne on 2 September off Cape Ann. Biggs reported that the French lost 60 men...
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  • contested, and ultimately inconclusive Action of 2 January 1783 against HMS Magicienne. Sibylle effected repairs and returned to the sea, but ended up being...
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    1781 Chatham captured the French frigate Magicienne off Cape Ann after a sanguinary engagement. Magicienne was serving in Orvilliers' fleet under Captain...
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    1796 Diamond, Magicienne, Childers, Camilla, and Syren captured Smuka Piga. Nineteen days later, Aquilon, Diamond, Minerva, Syren, Magicienne, and Camilla...
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  • 1762. He was promoted to Captain on 4 April 1777. In 1778, he captained the frigate Magicienne. In 1780, Boades captained the 64-gun Triton in the squadron...
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    HMS Lutine (1779) (category Magicienne-class frigates)
    West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She was built as a French Magicienne-class frigate with 32 guns, and was launched at Toulon in 1779. During...
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    HMS Magicienne which, off San Domingo, engaged the French vessels in the action of 2 January 1783. Having attacked and silenced the sloop, Magicienne engaged...
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  • ship launches in 1778 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1778. "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Surveillante' (1778)". Threedecks. Retrieved...
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    Action of 2 January 1783 (category Naval battles of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783))
    War of Independence. Severe fighting between a Royal Navy frigate HMS Magicienne and a French frigate Sibylle went on for nearly two hours, but in that...
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    Magicienne, and Childers in the proceeds of the capture on 10 April 1796 of Smuka Piga. Then Camilla, Aquilon, Diamond, Minerva, Syren, Magicienne, and...
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    managed to dismast Magicienne. Sibylle retreated when the Endymion and Emerald intervened. Thomas Graves, who commanded Magicienne, later commissioned...
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    French frigate Sérieuse (1779) (category Magicienne-class frigates)
    The Sérieuse was a Magicienne class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1779. In 1781, Sérieuse ferried soldiers after the Invasion of Minorca. She...
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    fifth rate 1807, designed by John Henslow on the basis of the French Magicienne of 1778 HMS Bucephalus 32-gun fifth rate 1808, designed by William Rule HMS...
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    receive a copper sheathing. At the beginning of the Anglo-French War of 1778, she patrolled in the Bay of Biscay, escorting convoys and chasing privateers...
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    6-pounder guns). Magicienne, (launched 1 August 1778 at Toulon) – captured by British Navy in September 1781. Précieuse, (launched 22 August 1778 at Toulon)...
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    Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Confederate. Magicienne ( French Navy): The Magicienne-class frigate was captured on 2 July by the Royal Navy's...
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    Nymphe. In 1780, he was promoted to 'lieutenant de frégate' and joined the Magicienne. In 1781, Leissègues served under Suffren and took part in the campaigns...
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    (26 km/h; 16 mph), significantly faster than their predecessor vessels. In 1778, the British Admiralty introduced a larger "heavy" frigate, with a main battery...
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    a number of cruises. Among his captures was the 32-gun French frigate Magicienne on 2 July 1781, an action that thwarted a planned French assault on British...
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  • Boades, also the served in the French Navy. He commanded the frigate Magicienne and died of wounds sustained at the Battle of the Chesapeake where he...
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  • renewal of the war in May 1803, Mackenzie was given command of the frigate Magicienne, and was employed in the blockade of the enemy's coast into the following...
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  • the command of Richard Hussey Moubray, previously first lieutenant of Magicienne, who had assisted in the landing of troops. Moubray then took Captain...
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  • Action of 22 January 1783 (category Naval battles of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783))
    Sybille had three weeks previously engaged the 32-gun British frigate HMS Magicienne, under Captain Thomas Graves. The ships had fought until they had both...
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    Begun: October 1778 Launched: 11 August 1779 Fate: Wrecked in Chesapeake Bay in November 1793. Diane Builder: Saint Malo Begun: December 1778 Launched: 18...
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    Nesbit Willoughby. In March 1810, Nereide joined Iphigenia, Leopard and Magicienne off Isle de France. On 1 May Nereide sent in her boats, under Willoughby's...
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