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HMS Spitfire

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A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times
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was a schooner of 64 tons burthen captured from the French in 1798. She was wrecked off the
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captured her on 19 April 1779, near the Azores. The French took her to Lorient where as
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was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the
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La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792
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were all burnt the next day to prevent the French from capturing them.
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was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1834 and wrecked in 1842.
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was a 14-gun fireship purchased in 1780. Her fate is unknown.
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destroyer launched in 1912 and sold for breaking up in 1921.
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purchased in 1776 in North America for Mouatt's squadron at
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was a 16-gun fireship launched in 1782 and sold in 1825.
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captured and purchased in 1793. She capsized in 1794.
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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859
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was run ashore on North Sandy Point and then burnt.
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Index

Royal Navy
euphemistic
translation
Cacafuego
Spanish
galleon
Sir Francis Drake
HMS Spitfire (1776)
galley
Falmouth, Massachusetts
d'Estaing's
Narragansett Bay
HMS Kingfisher
HM galley Alarm
HMS Spitfire (1778)
galley
Surveillante
£t
HMS Spitfire
sloop
HMS Speedwell (1752)
fireship
HMS Spitfire (1780)
HMS Spitfire (1782)
HMS Spitfire (1793)
schooner
HMS Spitfire (1798)
Amirante Islands
HMS Spitfire (1834)
HMS Spitfire (1845)

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