Career (Great Britain) | |
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Name: | HMS Crescent |
Ordered: | 19 July 1777 |
Builder: | James Martin Hillhouse, Bristol |
Laid down: | 19 August 1777 |
Launched: | March 1779 |
Completed: | 30 June 1779 (at Plymouth Dockyard) |
Commissioned: | ?September 1779 |
Fate: | Captured by a French frigate 19 June 1781 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate |
Tons burthen: | 611 29โ94 (bm) |
Length: | 120 ft 8 in (36.78 m) (overall) 99 ft 5 in (30.30 m) (keel) |
Beam: | 34 ft 0 in (10.4 m) |
Depth of hold: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
Complement: | 200 officers and men |
Armament: |
28 guns comprising
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HMS Crescent was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Crescent was first commissioned in about September 1779 under the command of Captain Charles Hope.
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