HMS Boreas (1774)
| History | |
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| Name | HMS Boreas |
| Ordered | 25 December 1770 |
| Builder | Hugh Blaydes & Mr Hodgson, Hull |
| Laid down | May 1771 |
| Launched | 23 August 1774 |
| Completed | 23 October 1775 at Chatham Dockyard |
| Commissioned | August 1775 |
| Fate | Sold to break up at Sheerness in May 1802 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Modified Template:Sclass- |
| Displacement | 626 48⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 200 officers and men |
| Armament |
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HMS Boreas was a modified Template:Sclass- sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Charles Thompson.
On 31 August 1779 Boreas, under the command of Captain Charles Thompson, captured the French corvette Compas, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, which was carrying a cargo of sugar.[1][Note 1] Compas, which was armed en flute, put up resistance for about 20 minutes, with the result that she suffered nine men killed and wounded before she struck.[3] Boreas was part of a squadron under the command of Rear Admiral of the Red Hyde Parker on the Jamaica station.
Horatio Nelson (who was created 1st Viscount Nelson 1801) was Senior Naval Officer of the Leeward Islands from 1784 to 1787 on the Boreas.
The Boreas was used as a slop ship from 1797 until its breakup.
Footnotes
- Notes
- ^ Compas had been launched on 12 September 1776. She had originally been intended as a training corvette for 40 students at the École de la Marine at Havre, but it closed in March, before she was launched. The Royal Navy did not take her into service. French sources report that she was armed with eighteen 8-pounder guns.[2]
- Citations
- ^ Clowes et al., (1897-1903), Vol. 4, p.31.
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p.107, #742
- ^ "No. 12050". The London Gazette. 18 January 1780. p. 1.
References
- *Clowes, W. Laird, et al. (1897-1903) The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston and Co.).
- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
- Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
- David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
- Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.
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