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gave de Grasse time to get out to sea. Although Hood was unable to relieve the siege, he was able to goad de Grasse into three futile attacks on the British fleet on 25 and 26 January. These attacks cost the British 172 men killed and 244 wounded; the French evacuated some 1000 wounded to
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into service under her existing name and commissioned her on 24 January under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Sevell Shivers. She then sailed for Britain in September 1782. The Admiralty sold
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55:-class cutters of Royal French Navy, built by Jacques and Daniel Denys at Dunkirk, and launched on 22 June 1781. On 7 December she and 324: 126: 113:
de Montluc de la Bourdonnaye. Hood described her as a large cutter, seven months old, and armed with sixteen 6-pounder guns.
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Annals of the wars of the eighteenth century: compiled from the most authentic histories of the period
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Shivers may already have been a Commander. He received his promotion from Lieutenant around 1782.
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sailed as escorts to a convoy of ten transports taking supplies to the fleet of Admiral
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was a cutter launched in 1781. The British captured her and took her in 1782 into the
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La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792
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On 24 January 1782 she encountered a British fleet under Admiral Sir
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Hood sailed on to Basseterre but the delay occasioned in capturing
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redoubt at St Kitts surrendered on 13 February. Hood and Admiral
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Where fate beckons: the life of Jean-François de la Pérouse
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Index

HMS Espion
Royal Navy
de Grasse
Martinique
François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé
Basseterre
St Kitts
Samuel Hood
sixth-rate
frigate
Lizard
Nevis
Knight of Malta
Sint Eustatius
Brimstone Hill
George Rodney
Battle of the Saintes
Demerliac (1996)
"No. 12277"
The London Gazette
"NMM, vessel ID 366398"
National Maritime Museum
the original
ISBN
978-1-60223-002-6
National Maritime Museum
Warship Histories
Categories
Cutters of the Royal Navy
1781 ships

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