HMS Vestal (1779)
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 Great Britain |
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| Name: | HMS Vestal |
| Ordered: | 18 March 1778 |
| Builder: | Robert & John Batson, Limehouse |
| Laid down: | 1 May 1778 |
| Launched: | 24 December 1779 |
| Completed: | 25 February 1780 (at Deptford Dockyard) |
| Commissioned: | November 1779 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1] |
| Fate: | Sold February 1816 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 601 35⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft 0.5 in (3.366 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 officers and men |
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HMS Vestal was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
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American Revolutionary War
Vestal was first commissioned in November 1779 under the command of Captain George Keppel.
On 3 September 1780, she captured the Mercury which was transporting Henry Laurens, the United States' minister to Holland.[2]
French Revolutionary Wars
She took part in the Action of 22 August 1795 between British and Dutch frigate squadrons off the Norwegian coast.
On 14 April 1797, Vestal, under the command of Captain White, captured the French privateer schooner Voltiguer, formerly the lugger Venguer, some seven leagues off Flamborough Head. Voltiguer was armed with eight 3-pounder guns and eight swivel guns, and had a crew of 40 men, 14 of whom were away on prizes. She was 12 days out of Calais and had captured a brig and two sloops. White took Voltiguer into the Humber.[3]
Because Vestal served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 1]
Notes and citations
- Notes
- Citations
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 14001. p. 338. 11 April 1797.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 17915. p. 633. 3 April 1823.
References
- 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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