HMS Vestal was a 20-gun sixth-rate Sphinx-class post ship of the Royal Navy. Commissioned by Captain James Shirley, Vestal escorted a convoy to Newfoundland...
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in 1816. HMS Vestal (1809) – see HCS Vestal below HMS Vestal (1833) was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1833 and broken up by 1862. HMS Vestal (1865) was...
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HMS Ariadne 1776 – sold 1814 HMS Vestal 1777 – foundered off Newfoundland 1777 HMS Perseus 1776 – converted to bomb vessel 1798, broken up 1805 HMS Unicorn...
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was amended and the Carysfort was re-ordered as a unit of the new 912-ton Vestal class. After launching, she was taken to Sheerness Dockyard where she was...
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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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ship Two Sisters off Northern Scotland. In 1779 he joined the frigate HMS Vestal, then under the command of Captain George Cranfield Berkeley, with whom...
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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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time and subsequently Cathcart sailed with Captain Richard Strachan in HMS Vestal. He was "invested with full powers by his Majesty and the East India Company...
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HMS St Albans was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 September 1764 by Perry, Wells & Green at their Blackwall Yard...
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overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook...
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