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participated in one action that resulted in her crew being awarded the Naval General Service Medal, and some other actions and captures. The Navy sold her in 1815. In 1816 she became an
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was launched in 1822, making her the first steam-powered vessel of the Royal Navy, although not added to the Navy List until 1831.
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that the Royal Navy purchased at Antigua in 1777 and armed with 10-14 guns. The navy sold her in Britain in 1778.
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was a 14-gun bomb vessel in use from 1742 to 1749, when she was sold. She became the armed merchant vessel named
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was a schooner that South Carolina Navy purchased in 1775, converted into a brigantine, and named
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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
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was commissioned in 1780 and paid off in 1782. On 23 December 1781 the "bomb-galley"
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Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
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Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794
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Index

Royal Navy
HMS Comet (1695)
bomb vessel
HMS Comet (1742)
Lloyd's Register
HMS Comet (1756)
galley
HMS Comet (1758)
brig-sloop
India
HMS Diligence
fireship
HM galley Comet (1777)
Siege of Savannah
HMS Comet
Guineaman
ship's tender
HMS Aeolus
HMS Comet (1783)
Dunkirk Roads
HMS Comet (1807)
fireship
Royal Navy
sixth rates
East Indiaman
East India Company
United Kingdom
Ceylon
River Thames
HMS Comet (1822)

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