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Slade's design was approved in September 1757, on which date four ships were approved to be built to these plans - three by contract and a fourth in a royal dockyard. Seven more ships were ordered to the same design between 1759 and 1762 - three more to be built by contract and four in royal
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were both reduced to 28-gun sixth rates in 1778, but were then restored to 32-gun fifth rates in 1779.
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Fate: Lost with all hands in the Indian Ocean (disappeared, fate unknown) in January 1770.
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on 7 May 1800. Taken to pieces at Sheerness Dockyard in April 1801.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Portsmouth Dockyard in September 1812.
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Fate: Captured by French squadron off Gibraltar on 1 May 1779.
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19 March 1825. Sold at Portsmouth Dockyard on 14 January 1832.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Woolwich Dockyard in January 1786.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Deptford Dockyard in October 1793.
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Fate: Blew up and sunk in action against French frigate
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Deptford Dockyard in July 1783.
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1813. Sold at Portsmouth Dockyard on 29 September 1814.
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Fate: Sold at Sheerness Dockyard on 3 November 1813.
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Built by: Thomas Stanton & Company, Rotherhithe.
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Completed: December 1763 at the builder's shipyard.
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Completed: 9 August 1760 at the builder's shipyard.
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Completed: October 1762 at the builder's shipyard.
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Built by: John Barnard & John Turner, Harwich.
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Completed: 24 June 1759 at the builder's shipyard.
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Built by: John Barnard & John Turner, Harwich.
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Frigate
Full-rigged ship
sailing frigates
fifth rate
Royal Navy
Sir Thomas Slade
Southampton-class
Stag
Alarm
Aeolus
Niger
Montreal
Quebec
Pearl
Emerald
Winchelsea
Glory
Aurora
ISBN
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0-85177-617-5

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