HMS Proselyte
Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Proselyte:
- fifth rate of 32 guns (26 × 12-pounders + 6 × 6-pounders). The Royal Navy sold her in 1785. In April 1787, the Régie des Paquebots at Havre purchased her and renamed her the Cinq Cousins, or Paquebot No. 5.[1] In September 1789 she was sold again, this time to her captain, M. Le Fournier, for Lt34,000.[2]
- HMS Proselyte was the French frigate Proselyte, launched in February 1786. The British captured her at Toulon in August 1793 and the Royal Navy commissioned her as a floating battery; she was bombarding Bastia in April 1794 when red-hot shot from shore batteries set her on fire and she had to be scuttled.
- HMS Proselyte (1796) was originally the 36-gun Dutch frigate Jason, She came into the Royal Navy when her crew mutinied and sailed her to Scotland in 1796; she was wrecked off St. Martin in September 1801.
- The fourth Post-ship; she was later converted to a bomb vessel and was wrecked off Anholt (Denmark)in December 1808.
Citations
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 181, #1768.
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 218, #2210.
References
- Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. OCLC 468324725.
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