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HMS Shannon: Ordered: 18 April 1757: Builder: Deptford Dockyard: Laid down: 11 May 1757: Launched: 17 August 1757: Completed: 8 October 1757: Commissioned: August 1757: Fate: Taken to pieces at Portsmouth December 1765: General characteristics; Class and type: 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate: Tons burthen: 587 53 ⁄ 94 bm: Length: 118 ...
HMS Shannon (1757) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and broken up 1765. HMS Shannon (1796) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1796 and sold in 1802. HMS Shannon (1803) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in September 1803. She had been intended to be called HMS Pallas, but was renamed in 1802 before being launched. She ran ashore ...
HMS Shannon (1757) HMS Southampton (1757) French ship Souverain (1757) T. HMS Trent (1757) V. HMS Vengeance (1758) HMS Vestal (1757) This page was last edited on 10 ...
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HMS Boreas 1757 – sold 1770. HMS Hussar 1757 – stranded on the south coast of Cuba and taken by France 1762. HMS Shannon 1757 – broken up 1765. HMS Trent 1757 – sold 1764; HMS Actaeon 1757 – sold 1766; modified Coventry class slightly modified (8½ inch greater width) revival of the Coventry design HMS Hind 1785 – broken up 1811
Meanwhile, HMS Shannon, a 38-gun frigate, under Captain Philip Broke was patrolling off the port of Boston on blockade duty. Shannon had been under the command of Broke since 1806 and, under his direction, the crew held daily great gun and small arms drills lasting up to three hours each. Crew members who hit their bullseye were awarded a pound ...
HMS Southampton (1693) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1693. The ship was rebuilt in 1700, hulked at Jamaica in 1728 and finally broken up in 1771. HMS Southampton (1757) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1757, and wrecked in 1812. HMS Southampton (1820) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1820. In 1867 the ship was lent to the Hull ...
Chesapeake herself was captured during the War of 1812, when on June 1, 1813, after a series of naval engagements with the Royal Navy, the British frigate HMS Shannon captured Chesapeake in a single-ship action near Boston. The Royal Navy commissioned Chesapeake, but put her up for sale at Portsmouth in July 1819. [24]