HMS Boreas (1774)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Boreas.
| Career (Great Britain) |  |
|---|---|
| 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 Mermaid-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 626 48⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 124 ft 6 in (37.95 m) (gundeck) 103 ft 11 in (31.67 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 officers and men |
| Armament: | 28 guns comprising
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HMS Boreas was a Modified Mermaid-class 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 flûte Compas, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, which was carrying a cargo of sugar.[1][Note 1] Compas 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.
Footnotes
- Notes
- ↑ Compas had been launched on 12 September 1775. 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 and the French may have recaptured her in 1780. In 181 a vessel by the same name was struck off at Brest.[2]
- Citations
- ↑ Clowes et al., (1897-1903), Vol. 4, p.31.
- ↑ Demerliac (1996), p.107, #742, & p.108,#755.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 12050. p. 1. 18 January 1780.
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.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
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