HMS Liverpool (1758)

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The second Liverpool also built in its namesake city, was launched on the 10 February 1758. She was a sixth-rate frigate this time with a small displacement of 587 tons and armed with 28 guns. She was engaged in blockading Dunkirk, where a French expedition had been assembled for a potential invasion of Ireland or Scotland. Whilst on this duty, Liverpool captured a French Privateer vessel, bringing her into Margate Roads. Liverpool shortly afterwards, captured another French Privateer, known as the Grand Admiral. The ship continued in service in the English Channel and North Sea until 1764 when her career came to a brief end and she was paid off in Woolwich, only to be re-commissioned and subsequently ordered to Newfoundland. After two years service there she journeyed to the Mediterranean, remaining there till her eventual return for paying off in Chatham, England in March 1772. On the 15 July 1775, Liverpool was re-commissioned for the second and final time. She served in the Mediterranean once more, then after a while joined the Fleet in North America under Viscount Howe in 1777, during the American Revolution, but it turned into a fateful deployment for the ship. On the 11 February 1778 she was wrecked off Long Island.

See HMS Liverpool for other ships with this name.