HMS Viper was a 6-gun galley, the former South Carolina Navy's Rutledge, which the British captured on 4 November 1779 at Tybee. She was broken up in 1785...
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1779. HMS Viper (1779) was a 6-gun galley, the former South Carolina navy's Rutledge, captured on 4 November 1779 at Tybee and listed until 1785. HMS...
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HMS Viper was the Massachusetts privateer schooner Viper that HMS Perseus captured on 26 September 1776. The Royal Navy purchased Viper in 1777. She then...
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frigate launched in 1758 and burnt in 1778. HMS Cerberus (1779) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1779 and wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour...
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sloop HMS Viper (1746), launched in 1746, was converted to a fire ship and renamed Lightning in 1755. She was sold in 1762 The 14-gun sloop HMS Sylph (1776)...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
USS Ranger captures HMS Drake (details) 1778, December – the Bristol privateer Tartar has an inconclusive engagement with a French frigate 1779, March – the...
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HMS Antigua was a 14-gun sloop that served in the British Royal Navy from 1779 to 1792. In contemporary records she is sometimes referred to as "His Majesty's...
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the privateer Gerard on 23 March 1779. He then commanded the privateer Nantz. He fell in with HMS Shaftsbury in July 1779 and was taken prisoner again. He...
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HMS Stork (1796) (Deptford) HMS Diomede (1798) (Deptford) HMS Amethyst (1799) (Deptford) Other works: refit of HMS Viper in 1786 at Plymouth A plan for...
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lieutenant aboard the 44-gun HMS Torrington and the 60-gun HMS Windsor. He was promoted to command the 10-gun sloop HMS Viper on 30 March 1756, during the...
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