HMS Fox (1780)
HMS Fox was a 32-gun Active-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 2 June 1780 at Bursledon, Hampshire by George Parsons.
| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name: | HMS Fox |
| Ordered: | 10 December 1778 |
| Builder: | George Parsons, Bursledon, Hampshire |
| Laid down: | February 1779 |
| Launched: | 2 June 1780 |
| Completed: | By 27 July 1780 |
| Honours and awards: | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1] |
| Fate: | Broken up in April 1816 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 32-gun Active-class fifth rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 69685⁄94 bm |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 35 ft 5 3⁄4 in (10.814 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 2 in (3.71 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Crew: | 250 |
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Fox was sent to the Caribbean in late 1781 and in January the following year under Captain Thomas Windsor captured two Spanish frigates.[2] In March 1783 under Captain George Stoney captured the Spanish frigate Santa Catalina.[3]
In March 1797, near Visakhapatnam, Fox captured the French privateer Modeste, under Jean-Marie Dutertre.[4]
Took part in the bloodless Raid on Manila in January 1798.
Because Fox served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.
On 12 May 1809, Fox, Captain Hart, brought into Madras, her prize Caravan, Aikin, master. Caravan was the former Cartier, Aikin, master, that the privateer French brig Adèle had captured in October 1807. Caravan had been carrying stones for building forts, arrack, coffee, and several carriages and bandies.[5]
Fate
Fox was broken up in April 1816.
Citations
- "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
- Southey, Thomas (1827). Chronological History of the West Indies: In Three Volumes, Volume 2. Longman. p. 540.
- Beatson. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain. p. 533.
- Demerliac, p. 308, no 2898
- The Asiatic Annual Register Or a View of the History of Hindustan ..., Volume 11 (June 1809), p.103.
References
- Demerliac, Alain (2003). Nomenclature des navires français (in French). 1792–1799. Nice: Éditions A.N.C.R.E.
- Hannings, Bud. (2012). The War of 1812: A Complete Chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6385-5
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.