HMS Vestal (1779) - the 28-gun frigate of the 6th rank of the Royal Navy . The third British ship called Vestal .
| HMS Vestal | |
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| HMS Vestal | |
 Enterprise type drawings including HMS Vestal | |
| Service | |
 Great Britain | |
| Ship class and type | frigate rank 6 Enterprise type |
| Type of sailing equipment | three-mast ship |
| Organization |  Royal Navy |
| Manufacturer | Batson , Limehouse |
| Author ship drawing | John williams |
| Construction started | May 1, 1778 |
| Launched | December 24, 1779 |
| End of service | Sold February 1816 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 601 35/94 tonnes ( approx. ) [1] |
| Gondek length | 120 feet 6 inches (36.73 meters ) [1] |
| Mid- width width | 33 ft 8½ inches (10.27 m) [1] |
| Depth of intrum | 11 ft ½ inches (3.36 m) [1] |
| Engines | Sail |
| Crew | 200 [1] |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 28 [1] |
| Operdeck guns | 24 × 9- pounder guns [1] |
| Guns on shkantsah | 4 × 3-fn guns, 12 falconets [2] later 4 × 6-fn cannon + 4 × 18-fn carronades [3] |
| Tank guns | 2 × 18-fn carronades [3] |
Content
Construction
When the construction of frigates of the Enterprise type was resumed in the late 1770s, the conservative John Williams saw no need to redo the project of 1770 (approved on January 3, 1771 ). In the years 1776−1778 were ordered 15 ships. 7 more followed in 1782−1783. During the same years, only two 28-gun frigates were ordered for other projects, which revived the Coventry type.
Vestal ordered March 18, 1778 . Laid down on May 1, 1778 . Launched on December 24, 1779 at the private shipyard of Robert (& John) Batson in Limehouse. Finished and sheathed copper February 25, 1780 at the Royal Shipyard in Deptford .
Service
American Revolutionary War
1779 - entered service in November, Captain George Keppel ( eng. George Keppel ).
1780 - April 10 went to Newfoundland ; On September 10, in conjunction with the sloop HMS Fairy, took the 16-gun American privatir Phoenix and the Mercury packet ; September (?) Captain George Berkeley ( eng. George Berkeley ).
1781 - March 11 went to Newfoundland; later in the supply operation of besieged Gibraltar ; September 2, in conjunction with HMS Portland and HMS Aeolus, took the 16-gun Disdain ; December 30, took the Spanish Nuestra Señora de los Dolores .
1782 - Captain William Fox ( eng. William Fox ); April 17 went to North America ; with the squadron of Elphinstone acted in the Delaware Bay; September 13, took the letter of marque Sophie ; September 13, took the French Aigle ; October 25, took American privier Randolph ; October 27, took the American private Surprise ; November (?), Commander Robert Murray ( eng. Robert Murray ).
1783 - February-April, equipment in Portsmouth ; returned to service in April, Captain George Oakes ( eng. George Oakes ).
Interwar Period
1784 - March, put into reserve and calculated.
1786 - January, overhaul and equipment at Deptford to September 1787
1787 - returned to service in August, Captain Sir Richard Strechen , commanded in 1791 .
1789 - May, equipment in Portsmouth; August 29 went to the East Indies .
1792 - Captain Edward Osborn ( born Edward Osborn ).
French Revolutionary Wars
1793 - February-May, minor repairs at Woolwich ; returned to service in June, Captain John McDougall ( eng. John M'Dougall ).
1794 - October, captain James Newman ( eng. James Newman ).
1795 - August, captain Charles White ( eng. Charles White ), commanded in 1799 ; On August 22, the 36-gun frigate Alliante took off from Egerö ( Norway ) together with the HMS Isis , HMS Stag and HMS Reunion .
1797 - temporary captain Robert Plampin ( eng. Robert Plampin ); April 10 in the North Sea took the 8-gun French corsair Voltigeur ; May 31, took the 18-gun corsair Jalouse ; [1] On June 13, he fled from a mutiny in the Burrow , and was attacked by rebel HMS Monmouth . [four]
1798 - May, participated in the attack of Popham on Ostend .
1799 - December, put into reserve and calculated.
1800 - January-March, adapted for military transport in Chatham ; returned to service in February, Commander Valentine Collard; [1] On April 25, with the troops not onboard, he went out with HMS Inflexible , HMS Stately , Wassenaer , Alkmaar , HMS Expedition , HMS Hebe , HMS Pallas , HMS Romulus , HMS Sensible , HMS Niger , HMS Resource and HMS Charon ; the captains had sealed orders. [four]
1801 - operated in Egypt (armed with en flûte ); [1] approx. June 5 from Benghazi took 2 trucks, from the hastily departed French squadron. [four]
1802 - April, put into reserve and calculated; [1] during the Peace of Amiens in reserve at Woolwich. [five]
Napoleonic Wars
1803 - September-October, equipment in Woolwich for loaning to Trinity House .
1804 - September, repairs at the shipyard Joshua Young & William Wallis in Roterhit through February 1805 .
1805 - February-March, equipment in Woolwich; returned to service, captain Stephen Digby ( born Stephen Digby ); On June 5, in the Canal, he took the 14-gun corsair Prospero ; July 18 was in a battle with the escort of Van Huell ( niderl. Van Huell ).
1806 - July, captain Edwards Graham ( eng. Edwards Graham ), commanded until 1809 .
1807 - North Sea and Downs .
1809 - November 19, in the area of Newfoundland, he took the 20-gun French corsair, the Intrépide brig .
1810 - July-September, converted to military transport in Portsmouth; returned to service in July, Commander John Houston ( Eng. John Houston ).
1811 - Commander Maurice Berkeley ( eng. Maurice Berkeley ); moved to Lisbon ; November, Commander (from June 1814, Captain) Samuel Decker ( eng. Samuel Deckar ), Leeward Islands .
1814 - June, the flagship of Rear Admiral Francis Lafore ( English Francis Laforey ); turned into a floating prison in Barbados (by order of the Admiralty of April 7, 1814 ).
1815 - July, master H. Curtis ( English H. Curtis ); August, put into reserve and calculated.
1816 - February, sold in Barbados.
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Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Winfield, ... p. 238.
- ↑ When built
- ↑ 1 2 By order of the Admiralty of February 2, 1780
- ↑ 1 2 3 James, ... Vestal 1799.
- Ips Ships of the Old Navy: VESTAL (28) 1779
Literature
- James, William. The Naval History of Great Britain . London, Richard Bentley, 1820−1837.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792 , Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6