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Chatham under Blackwood's command. By 2 July she was in a permanent mooring at Hull
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s crew pelted them with spears, capstan bars, handspikes, other offensive weapons, and also several large iron shot. The boats withdrew, but not before three men from
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was commissioned in August 1775 as a guardship at
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to come to. Mitchenson ignored that signal, and several other shots. When
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252:: 230 officers and men, 14 Marines, and 50 supernumeraries.
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791:. U.S. Government printing office via Imbiblio
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836:"The Battle of St. Lucia – 15 December 1778"
811:"NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF The American Revolution"
738:Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 181.
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274:Upper gun deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
16:British ship of the line (1774–1802)
992:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
922:. 14 August 1798. pp. 771–772.
376:galley of the Rhode Island Navy at
838:. morethannelson.com. 27 June 2016
773:National Archives (United Kingdom)
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997:Intrepid-class ships of the line
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866:. 28 November 1780. p. 6.
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271:Gun deck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
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404:appears in this depiction by
333:. She was broken up in 1802.
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297:Lower deck: 20 × 68-pounder
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624:On 30 July 1797, the
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280:: 10 × 4-pounder guns
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382:Mount Hope Bay raids
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286:: 2 × 9-pounder guns
556:Philippe d'Auvergne
392:battle of St. Lucia
291:As floating battery
250:As floating battery
919:The London Gazette
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986:Categories
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440:Saint Malo
411:Barrington
327:Royal Navy
320:third rate
299:carronades
238:Complement
220:Propulsion
795:24 August
726:Citations
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228:Sail plan
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671:Blenheim
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643:Blenheim
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579:Scorpion
469:off the
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