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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 ...
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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
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HMS Leopard has made its way to Botany Bay, left its prisoners, and sailed to Pulo Batang, where the ship is declared unfit for war. Captain Aubrey and some of his followers are put aboard the packet ship La Flèche to sail home for a new commission, but a shipboard fire ends the months of sweet sailing and brings them into the new war.
They fought alongside a similar brigade formed by the crew of the Shannon, which was captained by William Peel VC CB, son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel and Victoria Cross recipient. The Shannon ' s brigade landed a considerable force of mobile guns and rifle companies, while the Pearl ' s Naval Brigade deployed mostly rifle companies. [1] Capt.
The ships displaced 7,473–7,630 long tons (7,593–7,752 t), about 2,000 long tons (2,000 t) more than Shannon. The steel-hulled ships were fitted with a ram and their crew numbered approximately 560 officers and other ranks. [2]