• Mentor was the former HMS Wasp. The British Royal Navy sold Wasp in 1781 and she became the mercantile Polly, which traded with Africa. In 1784 Polly...
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  • inconclusive single ship action with a French warship in 1779. She was wrecked in 1782. Mentor (1781 ship) was launched in New England. From 1784 she sailed from...
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  • Mentor was launched in New England in 1781. From 1784 she sailed from Great Britain, trading between London and New York or Quebec. From 1789 she made...
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  • to carry Mentor for some years thereafter, but with data unchanged since 1791. However, there is no subsequent mention in Lloyd's List ship arrival and...
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    where he sold his ship for $700. He returned to England with Prince Lee Boo on the East Indiaman Morse, and they arrived on 14 July 1784. Prince Lee Boo...
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  • HMS Mentor was the Massachusetts letter of marque Aurora, commissioned in 1780. The Royal Navy captured her in July 1781 and took her into service as HMS...
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    Mentor. But the crew noticed that many of the gunports were "merely painted dummies." So the Mentor attacked and captured the target ship. The ship turned...
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  • Navy in the British (Royal Navy), a post he held jointly or solely from 1784 to 1806. He was 7th child of John Henslow, a master carpenter in the dockyard...
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  • HMS Wasp (category Royal Navy ship names)
    became the mercantile Polly, and then in 1784 she became the slave ship Mentor. The French captured Mentor circa 1795. HMS Wasp (1782) was purchased...
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    took over the chief gardening position in 1771 and became a mentor to John Fraser. In 1784, he was appointed superintendent of the royal gardens at Kensington...
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