Third Rate 64 gun ships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Crown (1782)

HMS Crown was a ,1779, Edward Hunt designed Crown Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line. It was the final British design for a 64 and added a few changes to the earlier designs. Its overall length was extended by 6in, and it incorporated an extra pair of gun ports on the upper deck forrard in the chase position, but had no additional guns supplied.

Built by Perry and Hankey of Blackwall, she was ordered on the 14th of October, 1778, laid down in the September of 1779 and launched on the 15th of March 1782. She was completed at Woolwich on the 18th of May in that same year.


Plan of the Orlop deck of Crown

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Crown
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall yard
Laid down:	September 1779
Launched:	15 March 1782
Fate:	Broken up, 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Crown Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1405 ​8⁄94 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 5 in (48.90 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 10 in (13.67 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 5.5 in (5.880 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	64 guns: GD: 26 × 24 pdrs UG deck: 26 × 18 pdrs QD: 10 × 9 pdrs+ 2x 24 pdr Carronades from1794 Fc: 2 × 9 pdrs RH: 6x 18 pdr Carronades from 1794.

Service.

HMS Crown was commissioned in the March of 1782, and joined the squadron cruising in the Bay of Biscay in the July of that year. On the 11th of September she joined Howe cruising off Lisbon.
On her return to England in the April of 1784 she was paid off but recommissioned in that same month for use as a guardship at Plymouth.

Paid off again in 1786 she was coppered for a cost of £3496 and that September she was recommissioned still as a guardship. Paid off once more in the October of 1788 she was recommissioned for service at sea at Chatham between the October and November of 1788 and sailed for the East Indies.

She returned to England in 1792 and was paid off once again.

In the May of 1798 she was converted to serve as a prison ship under Lieutenant John Baker until 1801.In the September of that year Lieutenant Benjamin Leigh took over her command, and the following year she was fitted as a powder hulk at Portsmouth. She was refitted as a prison ship again in the June of 1806 and commissioned under Lieutenant John Smith who died in the December of that year. She thus passed to the command of Lieutenant James Rose from 1807 to 1811, and then Lieutenant William Wickham until 1814.

Fate.

HMS Crown was placed into ordinary in 1815, and was broken up in the March 1816 at Portsmouth.

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HMS Diadem (1782)


Diadem at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope by Thomas Whitcombe.

HMS Diadem was a John Williams designed, Intrepid Class, 64 gun, third rate ship of the line, built at Chatham by M/shipwright Israel Pownoll until the April of 1779, and then completed by Nicholas Phillips. Ordered on the 5th of December 1777, she was laid down in the February of 1778, and launched on 19 December 1782, and completed there on the 19th of July 1783 for use as a guardship.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Diadem
Ordered:	5 December 1777
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	2 November 1778
Launched:	19 December 1782
Commissioned:	March 1783
Honours and awards:	Participated in Battle of Cape St Vincent Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"
Fate:	Broken up at Plymouth, September 1832
General characteristics
Class and type:	Intrepid Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1375½ (bm)
Length:	159 ft 10 in (48.72 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 5 in (13.54 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	500
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Diadem was commissioned in the March of 1783 to serve as a guardship at Chatham, and then at Plymouth from 1784 where her copper was repaired at a cost of £1.547.3.4d. Following the work she was recommissioned in the February of 1793 under Captain Andrew |Southerland, and sailed for the Med on the 15th of October in that year.

She took part in the Toulon operations during the latter part of 93, and into 1794.
In 1795 she came under the command of Captain Charles Taylor and was in Hotham’s action off Genoa on the 13th of March, during which action she suffered 3 killed and 7 wounded.

On the 13th of July she was in action again, this time off the Hyeres.

In 1796 she was transferred to Nelson’s squadron under Captain George Henry Towry off Genoa in the April of 1796,and then as Nelson’s Flagship at Leghorn in the August of that year. It was under Captain Towry that
she participated in the Battle of St. Vincent on the 14th of February 1797, during which she suffered 2 killed and 7 wounded. From this action she moved onto the blockade of Cadiz in the April of that same year.

In 1798 she was converted to serve as a Troopship at Plymouth for £7,412. Recommissioned under Captain John Dawson in 1799, on the 7th of April she left Portsmouth together with Trompe. They were to carry the West York militia to Dublin.

In 1800 under the command of Post Captain Sir Thomas Livingstone she was employed in the Quiberon operation
and also at Belle Isle under Sir Edward Pellew.

In 1801 under Captain John Larmoor she was with Lord Keith’s squadron in the Med, and employed in the expedition to Cadiz. She also took part ain the landings at Aboukir on the 8th of March 1801.
Because Diadem served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between the 8th of March, 1801 and the 2nd of September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.

The ship, paid off at Woolwich April 1802.

Following a small to middling repair at Woolwich between the April of 1804 and the January of 1805, she was recommissioned under Captain Home Popham for Channel service. In the May of that year she came under the command of Captain Charles Grant and then in the January of 1806 Captain Hugh Downman as the Flagship of the now Rear Admiral Popham. She was with him at both the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, and then the River Plate operations. On the 30th of July in that year she took the Spanish Brig Arrogante off Montevideo, Later in the year under Captain Samuel Warren she became the Flagship of Rear Admiral Charles Sterling for further operations in the region of the River Plate.

On her return to England, between the April and July of 1810 Diadem was at Chatham being fitted for service as a troopship of 28 guns. In June she recommissioned under Captain John Phillimore for Lisbon. She then spent some time working with the Spanish anti-French forces on the north coast of Spain. In the January of 1812 she carried released Danish prisoners of war from Plymouth to Chatham. She then sailed to North America. On the 7th of October in that year, Diadem captured the American privateer Baltimore.

Later, she sailed to the Halifax station. Phillimore transferred to command of HMS Eurotas on the 4th of May, 1813 and Diadem came under the command of Captain John Hanchett. On the 22nd of June her boats were involved in an attack on Norfolk Virginia.

Fate.

By the December of 1814 she was back in England and paid off at Plymouth. Fitted there as a receiving ship in the following year, and then as a troopship once more between the years 1822 and 1825, she reverted to her role as a receiving ship in the latter part of that year.

Diadem was broken up at Plymouth in the September of 1832.

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HMS Dictator (1783)

HMS Dictator was a John Williams designed Inflexible Class 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Robert Batson at Limehouse. Ordered on the 21st of October, 1778, and laid down in the the May of 1780, she was launched on the 6th of January, 1783 and completed on the 30th of May in that year at Woolwich.


A plan, showing the body, sheer lines, with inboard detail, and longitudinal half breadth of HMS Dictator which may represent her as built in 1783.

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History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:		HMS Dictator
Ordered:		21 October 1778
Builder:		Batson, Limehouse
Laid down:		May 1780
Launched:		6 January 1783
Honours and awards:		Naval General Service Medal with clasps: "Egypt" "Off Mardoe 6 July 1812"
Fate:		Broken up in 1817
General characteristics
Class and type:	Inflexible Class 64 gun ship of the Line
Tons burthen:	1387 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 4in (48’.01m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 8.5 in (13.52 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft in (5.0 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 9-pdr guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Dictator was commissioned on the 1st of January 1783 as a Guard ship in the Medway. She was paid off in the March of 1876, had a small repair at Chatham in the summer of 1879 costing £4,000.and was recommissioned under Captain Richard Bligh in the August of 1790 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Richard King.
She was recommissioned in the April of 1791 under Captain Thomas Tonkin as the Flagship of Rear Admiral John Dalrymple and receiving ship at Blackstakes until paid off n the September of that year.

After being refitted for sea at Chatham in the autumn of 1793 she was recommissioned under Captain Edmund Dod, and on the 5th of March 1794 sailed for the West coast of Africa under Captain Nathan Brunton. She returned home late in that year and was paid off once more. Fitted at Portsmouth between the February and July of 1795 for £ 9,323, in the September she was recommissioned under Captain Thomas Totty and sailed for Jamaica on the 26th of February, 1796.

The French Revolutionary Wars.

In 1797 Dictator first came under the command of Captain Thomas Western and then Captain William Rutherford.
The most important colonial expedition of that year was the one which led to the capture of Trinidad. Being based on the Leeward Islands' station, Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey took command of the invasion Squadron which sailed from Port Royal, Martinique on February the 12th Aboard the ships were a body of troops under Lieut. General Sir Ralph Abercromby. At a rendezvous off Carriacou, on the 14th of the month, they picked up reinforcements, and, on the 16th, arrived at Trinidad, and steered for the Gulf of Paria by way of Boca Grande. At 3.30 P.M., just as the British had cleared the channel, in Shagaramus bay, they discovered a Spanish squadron of four sail of the line and a frigate riding at anchor.

As the entrance to the enemy's anchorage appeared to be well protected by a battery of twenty guns and two mortars posted upon the island of Gaspargrande, and also as the day was already far advanced, Harvey sent his transports, protected by the Arethusa, Thorn, and Zebra, to find a berth about five miles from Port of Spain, and ordered the Alarm, and Victorieuse to keep under sail between the enemy and Port of Spain, whilst, he anchored with his ships of the line within long gunshot of the Spanish ships and batteries The intention being that of preventing the foe from escaping during the night, and on the following morning taking measures for their destruction.

To the surprise of the British, the Spaniards, at about 2 A.M. on the 17th, began to set fire to their ships, and, before dawn, four out of the five were almost totally destroyed. The fifth ship, the San Damaso (74) which was undamaged was brought off without resistance by the boats of the squadron, the Spaniards having evacuated Gaspargrande Island. This was occupied in the early morning by part of the Queen's Regiment, and, in the course of the day. Other troops were landed, without interruption, three miles from Port of Spain, which was quietly entered that evening. On the following day the island of Trinidad peacefully capitulated. The Spaniards, it afterwards appeared, had burnt their ships because they had barely half the officers and men that were required to man them.

Those British ships directly involved were:-
The Prince of Wales 98, Captain John Harvey,
Bellona 74, George Wilson,
Invincible 74, William Cayley,
Vengeance 74, Thomas Macnamara Russell,
Favourite 16, James Athol Wood,
and Terror 8, Dunbar Douglas.

Dictator only participated in the latter stages of the action, not having arrived until the 18th of February and the issue of prize money reflecting this late arrival.

Returning to England, Dictator was fitted as a troopship in the May of 1798 under Captain Byam Martin, and then in 1799 Captain John Oakes Hardy until 1801 firstly in the North Sea and then in the Egyptian operations. On the 8th of March, 1801, whilst disembarking the army at the Battle of Aboukir during the French Egyptian campaign, one of Dictator’s seamen was killed and a midshipman, Edward Robinson, fatally wounded.

Prize money for the capture of enemy ships, was as usual, shared with other warships in the squadron.
Because Dictator had served in the navy's Egyptian campaign, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.
The ship was paid off in the March of 1802, and fitted at Chatham as a floating battery costing £6,888., between the February and May of 1803, for service at Sheerness.

The Napoleonic Wars.

Having been recommissioned by Captain John Newhouse, Dictator was placed under the command of Captain Charles Tinling for use as a guardship in Kings Deep, and later in 1804 this duty devolved onto Captain Richard Hawkins. She was then reinstated as a 64 gun ship by Cox and Co for £26.016. between the October of that year and the May of 1805. She was recommissioned in the following month under Captain James Macnamara for service in the North sea, and then between the June of 1807 and 1808 Captain Donald Campbell took over command.
In the late summer of that year, Dictator was part of Admiral Gambier's fleet in the Øresund at the Battle of Copenhagen where she shared prize money with some 126 other British naval ships. She was again in Danish Waters the following year, in Admiral Hood's squadron of four ships-of-the-line together with some smaller vessels, tasked with maintaining the blockade between Jutland and Zealand. Captain Campbell, ordered the sloop HMS Falcon to proceed on her successful patrols to Samsø, Tunø and Endelave.

In the March of 1809 Dictator came under the command of Captain Richard Pearson and in the August of that year she was tasked with the occupation of the Pea Islands to the east of Bornholm but ran aground en route and had to be towed back to Karlskrona for repairs.

In early July 1810, Dictator came under the command of Captain Robert Williams during the Gunboat war with the coalition of Denmark-Norway. Dictator, in company with the Edgar and Alonzo, sighted three Danish gunboats commanded by Lieutenant Peter Nicolay Skibsted, who had captured the Grinder in the April of that year. The gunboats (Husaren, Løberen, and Flink) sought refuge in Grena, on eastern Jutland, where a company of soldiers and their field guns could provide cover. However, the British mounted a cutting out expedition of some 200 men in ten ships’ boats after midnight on the 7th of July, capturing the three gunboats.
At some time during this period the command of Dictator again changed. Her new captain, James Patterson Stewart was to hold the post until the April of the following year.

Throughout the first half of 1812 , from April onward, Dictator was captained by Alexander Schomberg and led a small squadron consisting of three brigs, the 18-gun Calypso, 14-gun Podargus and the 14-gun Flamer. On the 7th of July they encountered the Danish-Norwegian vessels Najaden, a frigate finished in 1811 in part with parts salvaged from a ship-of-the-line destroyed in earlier battles, and three brigs, Kiel, Lolland and Samsøe. Najaden was under the command of Danish naval officer Hans Peter Holm, and In the ensuing Battle of Lyngor Dictator destroyed Najaden and the British took Laaland and Kiel as prizes, but had to abandon them after the two vessels ran aground. The action cost Dictator five killed and 24 wounded. In 1847 the surviving British participants were authorized to apply for the clasp "Off Mardoe 6 July 1812" to the Naval General Service Medal.

The following month Captain William Hanwell assumed command until the ship was paid off in the November of that year.

The War of 1812.

Dictator was fitted as a troopship at chatham between the June and September of 1813, during which process Captain George Crofton was put in command. In the December of that year command devolved onto the shoulders of Commander Henry Dilks Byng. She then came under Lieutenant James Tattnall who sailed her to North America, and she then came under the command of Commander Henry Montressor in the February of 1815.

Fate.

HMS Dictator was among Admiral Alexander Cochrane's fleet moored off New Orleans at the start of 1815, but by the October of that year she was back in Portsmouth where she was laid up, and broken up there in the April of 1817.

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HMS Director (1784)


HMS Director

HMS Director was a Thomas Slade designed Saint Albans Class 64 gun third rate ship of the line, scaled down from his Bellona Class74s.Built William Cleverley at Gravesend, she was ordered on the 2nd of August, 1780, laid down in the November of that year, and launched on the 9th of March, 1784. Completion took place at Woolwich between the 14th of March and the 23rd of July in that year.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Director
Ordered:	2 August 1780
Builder:	Cleverley, Gravesend
Laid down:	November 1780
Launched:	9 March 1784
Fate:	Broken up, Chatham January 1801
Notes:	Participated in: Battle of Camperdown
General characteristics
Class and type:	64-gun St Albans Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1388 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 1 in (48.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 6.75 in (13.5 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 10 in (5.7 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

HMS Director was commissioned under Captain Thomas West in the March of 1879 for service as a guard ship in the Medway. She was fitted in this role at Chatham for the sum of £2643 between the February and July of 1789.
Refitted for the Spanish Armament in 1790, and then back into ordinary in the June of that year.
Fitted as a lazarette at Chatham in for £1,008.in the May of 1794, and then at last fitted as a 64 gun ship in 1796, at Chatham for £10,775., and recommissioned under Captain William Bligh, who would retain his captaincy until 1800.

In early 1797 Director was under his command whilst he surveyed the Humber estuary, preparing a map of the stretch from Spurn Head to the west of Sunk Island. In the May of that year, his crew mutinied during the Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore between the May and June of that year. Their actions were not triggered by any specific actions by Bligh himself. By the 12th of October he had restored order to the crew so successfully that Director was able to take an active part in the Battle of Camperdown, where she captured the Dutch commander, Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter, and his flagship, Vrijheid. Director suffered a total of 7 wounded during the battle.


H.M.S. Director 1784, at St Helena with a view of Jamestown

Fate.

Director was decommissioned in the July of 1800 and broken up at Chatham in the January of 1801.

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HMS Europa (1765)



HMS Europa.

HMS Europa was a William Batley designed Exeter Class, 64 gun, third rate ship of the line, built by Henry Adams, at Lepe, downriver from Bucklers Hard. Ordered on the 16th of December,1761 she was laid down in the February of 1762, after modifications to her plans in the previous month, and launched on the 21st of April,1765. She was completed by the builders for ordinary in the May of that year.

Europa plans.
History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Europa
Ordered:	16 December 1761
Builder:	Henry Adams, Lepe
Laid down:	February 1762
Launched:	21 April 1765
Completed:	By 5 May 1765
Renamed:	HMS Europe on 9 January 1778
Fate:	Broken up in July 1814
General characteristics
Class and type:	Exeter Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1370 (bm)
Length:	1598 ft (48.39 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft. 6.75in (13 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft. 10 in (5.82 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

Service.

Completed too late to see service in the Seven Years’ War, she was commissioned in the September of 1777 under Captain, Timothy Edwards after a small repair at Portsmouth. Consequently most of of Europa's service took place during the American Revolution, supporting fleet movements and serving as the Flagship of a number of admirals, including John Montagu Molyneux Shuldham, and Mariot Arbuthnot. During her time in North American waters she was renamed Europe on the 9th of January, 1778.

Edwards was succeeded by Captain Francis Parry in the April of that year, and Europe became the Flagship of Vice-Admiral Montagu, under whom she sailed for Newfoundland in the May of 1779. She was part of the attack on Saint Pierre and Miquelon on the 14th of September, 1778, and later that month Parry was succeeded by Captain Thomas Davey, serving with Shuldham’s squadron. In the April of 1779 she came under the command of Captain William Swiney, by now serving as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot, and after some time in home waters she sailed again for North America in the May of 1779.

Captain Smith Child took command of Europe in the August of 1780, and she participated in the battles of Cape Henry on the 16th of March and the Battle of the Chesapeake on the 5th of September,1781. During the Battle of the Chesapeake she formed the leading part of the centre division, along with the 74-gun HMS Montagu, and was heavily involved in the fighting. These two ships suffered heavy damage, with Europe in a leaking condition, with her rigging badly cut, and a number of guns dismounted. Nine members of her crew were killed, and a further 18 wounded. The British fleet eventually withdrew from the action. She was then paid off in the March of 1782, undergoing a refit at Plymouth between May and September that year, during which time she was coppered at a cost of £ 15,640.15.5d.

Europe was recommissioned in the August of that year under the command of Captain John Duckworth, with command passing the following year to Captain Arthur Phillips. He sailed to the East Indies in the January of 1783, returning the following year and paying Europe off in the May of 1784. She was fitted for ordinary at Plymouth in the July of that year, and spent the rest of the years of peace in this condition.

The French Revolutionary Wars.

Europe was recommissioned in the July of 1796. She under Lieutenant John Gardiner,and was used as a prison ship at Plymouth until being paid off again in the September of 1800. Recommissioned again in the September of 1801 under Lieutenant Thomas Darracot, she again served as a prison ship until being paid off in the March of 1802.

The Napoleonic Wars.

She was again in service, still as a prison ship at Plymouth, between the November of 1804 and the December of 1809, under Lieutenant William Styles.

Fate.

Europe was briefly commissioned in 1814 under Lieutenant John Mills Mudge, and was finally broken up at Plymouth in the July of that year.

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HMS Indefatigable (1784)


‘HMS Indefatigable 1784’ by George Shaw (1929-1989

HMS Indefatigable was a Thomas Slade 1761 designed, Ardent Class, 64 gun third rate ship of the line, built by Henry Adams at Bucklers Hard. She was ordered on the 3rd of August, 1780, long after Slade's death. She was laid down in the May of 1781 and launched in early in the July of 1784. She was completed between the 11th of July and the 13th of September of that year, at Portsmouth dockyard, as a 64 gun two decked third rate ship of the line at a cost of £ 25,210 4. 5d, her total outlay including fitting out and coppering, being £ 36,154 18. 7d. By the time of her completion, she was already an anachronism in her role as a ship of the line, because the French were now only building more powerful 74 gun ships, and she was consequently never commissioned in that format.


Indefatigable

History
Great Britain
Name:		HMS Indefatigable
Ordered:		3 August 1780
Builder:		Adams, Bucklers Hard
Laid down:		May 1781
Launched:		July 1784
Commissioned:		December 1794
Honours and awards:		Naval General Service Medal with clasps: "Indefatigable 20 Apl. 1796" "Indefatigable 13 Jany. 1797" "16 July Boat Service 1806" "Basque Roads 1809"
Fate:		Broken up at Chatham, March 1816
Notes:		Razeed to 44 guns between September 1794 and February 1795
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ardent Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	​1384 3⁄94 (bm)
Length:	160 ft 1 1⁄4 in (48.8 m) (gundeck); 131 ft 10 3⁄4 in (40.2 m) (keel)
Beam:	44 ft 5 in (13.5 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft (5.8 m) (as frigate, 13 ft 3 in (4.0 m))
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	As built: GD: 26 × 24-pounder guns UD: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns As a frigate: GD: 26 × 24-pounder guns QD: 8 × 12-pounder guns + 4 × 42-pounder Carronades Fc: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 42-pounder Carronades

Service.

During 1794, HMS Indefatigable was razeed. Her upper gun deck was cut away in order to convert her into a large and heavily armed frigate. The original intention had been to retain her twenty-six 24-pounder guns on her gundeck, and to mount eight 12-pounder guns on her quarterdeck, with a further four on her forecastle, which would have rated her as a 38-gun vessel. However, it was at this time that the Carronade was beginning to show its potential to the Navy, and her intended armament was altered on the 5th of December, 1794 to include four 42-pounder carronades for her quarterdeck and a further two on the forecastle. Indefatigable was thereafter rated as a 44 gun fifth rate frigate. The work was carried out at Portsmouth between the September of 1794 and the February of 1795 at a cost of £8,764. On the 17th of February in that year, a further two 12-pounder guns were added to her quarterdeck armament, although her official rating remained as that of a 44.

The French Revolutionary Wars.

Indefatigable was first commissioned in the December of 1794 under Captain Sir Edward Pellew, who commanded her until 1798.

She began her service in a cruising capacity and on the 9th of March, 1795, Indefatigable, Concorde, and Jason captured numerous French prizes including Temeraire, Minerve, Gentille, Regeneration, and a brig and sloop of unknown names. In the October of that same year, the Dutch East Indiaman Zeelilee was wrecked on the Isles off Scilly with the loss of 25 of her 70 crew. Displaying extreme bravery, Pellew and his crew rescued the survivors.
On the 20th of March, 1796, Indefatigable and her squadron chased three French corvettes, of which the Volage of 26 guns ran ashore under a battery at the mouth of the Loire, losing her masts as she struck, the French were, however, able to refloat her at a later date. Her two consorts Sagesse and Eclatant succeeded in escapeing up the river. The squadron also captured or sank a number of merchant vessels between the 11th and the and the 21st of March.

• Favorite Sultana, laden with salt—captured;
• Friends, Brig, laden with flour—captured;
• Brig of unknown name, in ballast—sunk;
• A Chasse Maree of unknown name, empty—sunk;
• Providence, Chasse Maree, laden with wine and brandy—captured;
• Brig of unknown name, laden with empty casks—sunk;
• Four Marys, Brig, in ballast—captured;
• Aimable Justine, Brig, in ballast—captured;
• Nouvelle Union, Brig, in ballast—captured.

The vessels sharing in the prize money were: Indefatigable, Concorde, Revoloutionnaire, Amazon, Argo, and the hired armed cutter Dolly along with the hired armed Lugger Duke of York.

On the 13th of April in that same year, Indefatigable was in pursuit of a French frigate. Pellew signalled to Revolutionnaire to cut her off from the shore. Revolutionnaire then captured the French frigate Unite after having fired two broadsides into her. Unite suffered nine men killed and 11 wounded, whilst Revolutionnaire received no casualties. The Royal Navy later took the frigate into service as HMS Unite.



Virginie fighting HMS Indefatigable.

On the morning of the 20th of April, 1796, Indefatigable sighted the French 44 gun frigate Virginie off the Lizard. Indefatigable, Amazon, and Concorde gave chase, with Indefatigable coming up with her just after midnight on the 21st of April, after a chase of 15 hours and 168 nautical miles. After an hour and three quarters of fighting, Virginie had still not struck her colours and had somewhat outmanoeuvred Indefatigable when Concorde arrived on the scene. Seeing that she was now outnumbered, Virginie finally conceded and struck.

Virginie carried 44 guns, 18 and 9 pounders, and supported a crew of 340 men under the command of, Capitaine de Vaisseau Citizen Bergeret. She had 14 or 15 men killed, 17 badly wounded, and 10 only slightly injured. She had also taken on four feet of water in the hold from shot holes below the waterline. In contrast Indefatigable had suffered no casualties. Pellew dispatched the Virginie to Plymouth escorted by Concorde, and followed on the next day together with Amazon, which had sustained some damage during the action. The Royal Navy took Virginie into service under its own name.

In the July of that year, there was an initial distribution of £20,000 in prize money for the capture of Unite and Virginie. Indefatigable shared this with Amazon, Revolutionnaire, Concorde, and Argo. Apparently, Duke of York also shared in some or all of the prize money. In 1847, the Admiralty authorised the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Indefatigable 20 Apl. 1796".

On the 12th of June, Indefatigable, Amazon, Concorde, Revolutionaire, and Phoebe took two French brigs off Ushant, the Trois Couleurs and the Blonde (alias Betsey). This time the chase took them 24 hours before they overhauled their quarry. Trois Couleurs carried 10 guns and a crew of 70. Blonde had 16 guns and a crew of 95 men. Each was under the command of an ensign de vaisseau and both vessels had left Brest two days earlier for a six-week cruise, but had not yet succeeded in taking any prizes.

In September 1796, Indefatigable, Phoebe, Revolutionnaire, and Amazon captured five Spanish ships.
On the 1st of October, Indefatigable, Amazon, Revolutionnaire, Phoebe, and Jason shared in the capture of the Vrow Delenea Maria. The next day, Pellew and Indefatigable captured the privateer schooner Ariel of Boston off Corunna. Earlier, Pellew had recaptured the brig Queen of Naples, which had been sailing from Lisbon to Cork. From her, he learned that there were two privateers operating in the vicinity of Corunna. One of which had captured a brig from Lisbon with a cargo of bale goods two days earlier. Pellew immediately set off towards Corunna and was able to intercept the Ariel. She had 12 guns and a crew of 75 men, and was 14 days out of Bordeaux. Her consort, the schooner Vengeur, was of the same strength, and Pellew was also hopeful of catching her. The brig from Bristol, however, had escaped into the port of Ferrol, the same port into which Pellew had earlier chased two French frigates.

In the beginning of January, 1797, Indefatigable and Amazon first captured the Packet Sangossee and then on the 7th they captured the Emanuel. On the 13th, Indefatigable was destined to fight the action for which she and Captain Pellew became famous.

This engagement took place off the Penmarks and once again involved the two frigates Indefatigable and Amazon, on this occasion against the French Droits de l’Homme, a 74 gun ship of the line. The battle ended with Droits de l'Homme being driven ashore during a gale. Amazon also ran onto the shore. Almost her entire crew survived both the battle and the grounding, but were captured. Despite being embayed and having damaged masts and rigging, Indefatigable was able to repair her own damage and beat off the lee shore showing the excellent seamanship of her Captain, Master and crew. She suffered only 19 officers and men wounded, with most of those not being serious. This action resulted in the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Indefatigable 13 Jany. 1797" for any crew still surviving in 1847.


Fight of the Indefatigable (left) and Droits de Homme, as depicted by Leopold le Guen (1853)

By the 18th of January Indefatigable had returned to Falmouth. When a fire destroyed the American merchantman Indian Chief, leading his crew Pellew saved all the crew that were on board her.
Subsequently, either Indefatigable, or Pellew's squadron took more vessels, including privateers, primarily in the Channel. Thus, Pellew was able to report that, on the 30th of April, 1797, "we" captured the French Brigantine privateer Basque. armed with eight guns and carried a crew of 50 men.

On the 11th of May, Indefatigable in company with Phoebe, Cleopatra, Childers, and Duke of York captured Nouvelle Eugénie. She was a razeed privateer of 16 guns and carried a crew of 120 men. Four days out of Nantes on a 30-day cruise, she had taken no prizes. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Eugenie.

On the14th of October, Indefatigable arrived at Teneriffe. At midnight she captured the French brig corvette Ranger which was armed with 14 guns and carried a crew of 70 men. She had been carrying dispatches to the West Indies, which her Captain was able to destroy before surrendering. On the following day, Pellew captured a Spanish schooner carrying a cargo of fish. Indefatigable was short of water, so he put the crew of Ranger on board the schooner (though not Ranger's officers) and put them ashore at Santa Cruz.

Not content with this feat,ten days later, Indefatigable captured the privateer Hyène after a chase of some eight hours. Hyène was armed with twenty four 9 pounder guns and had a crew of 230 men. She was two weeks out of Bayonne but had not achieved any captures. Hyène had apparently mistaken Indefatigable for a vessel from Portuguese India. Pellew estimated that, had she not lost her foretopmast in the chase, she might well have escaped him. She had been the post ship Hyaena until being captured in 1793. The Royal Navy took her back into service under her original name.

Indefatigable then returned to the Channel and on the 11th of January, 1798, whilst in company with Cambrian and Childers they took the French privateer schooner Vengeur, a new vessel of 12 guns and 72 men. She was eight days out of Ostend but had as yet taken no prizes. Pellew dispatched her to Falmouth.

Five days later, in the evening of the 16th, Pellew's squadron captured the French privateer Inconcevable. She was armed with eight guns and had a crew of 55 men. She was 10 days out of Dunkirk and had taken nothing. Prize money was paid to Indefatigable, Cambrian, and the Success.

On the 28th of the month, Indefatigable and Cambrian captured the privateer Heureuse Nouvelle. She was armed with 22 guns and had a crew of 130 men. She was 36 days out of Brest and, during that time, had captured only one ship, a large American vessel named the Providence which had a cargo of cotton and sugar. Pellew dispatched Cambrian in pursuit. Duke of York also shared in this capture.

On the 30th of April in that same year, Indefatigable captured the brigantine privateer Basque. She was armed with eight guns and had a crew of 50 men. For good measure Indefatigable and Cleopatra also captured the Hope on the 11th of July.

At daylight on the 4th of August, Indefatigable sighted the privateer Heureux together with a prize and as usual gave chase. The two separated, with the prize heading directly for Bayonne. After a chase of 32 hours on a great circular route, Indefatigable and her quarry found themselves off Bayonne where Indefatigable intercepted the prize and captured her. The privateer was the Heureux, of 16 guns and 112 men. Her prize was the Canada, John Sewell Master, which had been sailing from Jamaica to London, having stopped in Charlestown, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and coffee. Pellew exchanged prisoners, taking off the crew of the Canada and putting on her the crew of Heureux. He then drove Canada on shore where he hoped that her cargo at least would be destroyed.

Indefatigable’s next capture was the French corvette Vaillante while cruising in the Bay of Biscay on the 8th. After a chase of 24 hours, she was finally taken, the corvette having fired a few shots before her commander Lieutenant de Vaisseau La Portee struck he colours. She was armed with twenty-two 9 pounder guns and had a crew of 175 men. She had left Rochefort on the 1st of the month. The ship was only 18 months old, coppered, and a fast sailer. The British took her into service as Danea. There was now a pause in the proceedings, for it was not until the 15th of November that Indefatigable captured her next victim the Mercurius. To round off this most successful year at dawn on the 31st of December, Indefatigable captured the Minerve, five leagues off Ushant. This ship was armed with 16 guns and carried a crew of 140 men. She was four weeks out of Saint- Malo and waiting to enter Brest when the Indefatigable swooped. She had already taken several prizes, one of which, the Asphalon, Indefatigable captured on the 1st of January 1799 thus starting the New year in fine style. Aspahalon, a Newcastle vessel, had been sailing from Halifax to London with a cargo of sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Other vessels which Minerve had captured included Martinus a Bremen brig, Tagus a Portuguese brig, Minerva an English Snow, and Ann and Dorothea, aka Beata Maria, a Danish schooner.

More captures or recaptures of merchantmen followed. Indefatigable, Melpomene, and Nymph recaptured the Providence on the 10th of January and on the 14th, Indefatigable recaptured Argo, which had been sailing from Gothenburg for Boston when a French privateer had captured her. After her recapture Argo was dispatched to Falmouth. Next came the Pomona on the 5th of February, and the Wohlfarden on the 9th.

Indefatigable’s subsequent commanders.

From the March of 1799 until the end of 1800 Indefatigable came under the command of Captain Henry Curzon. On the 31st of May she captured the brig Vénus armed with twelve 4 pounder guns and two 9 pounders, carrying a crew of 101 men. She was nine weeks out of Rochefort and had captured two prizes, the schooner Clarence, sailing from Lisbon to London, and a ship from Lisbon sailing to Hamburg with a cargo of salt. Indefatigable was apparently also in company with Fisgard and Diamond.

On the 9th of October in that year Indefatigable, Diamond, Cambrian, Stag, Nymphe and Cerberus shared in the capture of the Spanish brig Nostra Senora de la Solidad. Then on the 7th of November Nymphe, Indefatigable and Diamond also shared in the recapture of the ship Brailsford.

Indefatigable began the new centaury in fine style because on the 6th of January, 1800 she shared with Defiance, Unicorn Sirius and Stag in the capture of the French brig Ursule. And on the 11th of February Indefatigable captured the Vidette.

There was now another break in the proceedings because it was not until the 12th of June that Indefatigable captured the French privateer brig Vengeur. She was armed with six long 4-pounders and ten 18-pounder carronades, and carried a crew of 102 men. Two days out of Bordeaux and sailing for the coast of Brazil. Vengeur was in company with three Letters of marquee vessels, a ship, a brig and a schooner bound for Guadeloupe. On the 11th of June Vengeur had captured the Jersey-privateer Lugger Snake. Indefatigable shared the prize money with the Sirius.

On the 3rd of July Indefatigable recaptured the brig Cultivator, from the French. Eleven days later, Indefatigable and Sirius captured the French ship Favori. On the 22nd of October Indefatigable, took the French 28-gun frigate Venus off the Portuguese coast. Indefatigable had been chasing her from the early morning, and then during the afternoon Fisgard came in sight and forced Venus toalter her course. Both British vessels then trapped Venus at almost the same time of 7pm.^[Venus was armed with 32 guns and had a crew of 200 men. She was sailing from Rochefort to Senegal.

In the January of 1801, Indefatigable was under Captain Matthew Scott. Indefatigable was part of the squadron that shared by agreement in the prize money from the Temeraire, which Dasher had captured on 30 May. Similarly, the same vessels shared by agreement in Dasher's capture of Bien Aimé on 23 July 1801.
Indefatigable was then paid off later that year, and was laid up in ordinary at Plymouth between the March and April of 1802, as a result of the peace treaty signed with France in 1801.

The Napoleonic Wars.

Following the resumption of hostilities, the Indefatigable was fitted out for sea between the July and September of 1803. In the December of that year she was recommissioned under Captain Graham Moore, younger brother of Sir John Moore of Corunna fame.

On the 9th of August, 1804 Indefatigable was in sight when HMS Nautilus recaptured the West Indiaman William Heathcote off Bayonne, and thus shared in the salvage money. On the 5th of October of that year,Indefatigable, with Moore now as Commodore, and accompanying frigates Medusa, Lively, and Amphion intercepted four Spanish frigates of the Montevideo treasure fleet off Cadiz, under the command of Rear-Admiral Don Joseph Bustamente, Knight of the Order of St. James, They were carrying bullion to Spain. Spain, a neutral country at the time, was on the verge of declaring war strong signs of declaring war on Britain, under a coercive alliance with Napoleon.. Acting on Admiralty orders, Moore instructed the Spaniards to change their course and sail for England. Admiral Bustamente refused and a short engagement ensued.

First Mercedes blew up. Then Indefatigable captured the Medée, and Lively captured Clara. After a further chase, Lively and Medusa took the Fama.

• Medée the flagship was armed with forty-two 18-pounder guns on her main deck and had a crew of 300 men. She lost two men killed and 10 wounded.
• Fama, the Commodore's ship, was armed with thirty-six 12-pounder guns on her main deck and had a crew of 180 men. She lost 11 killed and 50 wounded.
• Clara was armed with thirty-six 12-pounder guns on her main deck and had a crew of 300 men. She lost seven killed and 20 wounded.
• Mercedes was armed with thirty-six 12-pounder guns on her main deck and had a crew of 280 men. After she exploded, the British were only able to rescue her second captain and 40 men.

In the action Indefatigable suffered no casualties. Amphion had five men wounded, one badly. Lively had two killed and four wounded. Indefatigable and Amphion escorted Medée and Fama to Plymouth, whilst Medusa and Lively brought in Clara. The Royal Navy took Medea into service as Iphigenia and Clara as Leocadia. The value of the treasure was very large and, if it had been treated as Prizes of War, then Moore and his brother captains would have become extremely wealthy. As it was, the money and ships were declared to be "Droits of Admiralty" on the grounds that war had not been declared, and the captains and crew shared a relatively small ex gratia payment of £160,000 for the bullion, plus the proceeds of the sale of the hull and cargo.

In the October of 1805 Indefatigable, now under Captain John Tremayne Rodd, who would stay in command until 1809, took part in the blockade of Brest. One boat each from the ships of the line of the squadron, plus three boats each from Indefatigable and Iris entered the Gironde on the 15th of July, 1806 to attack two French corvettes and a convoy. A change in the wind permitted all but one corvette to escape. The British captured the French corvette Caesar, which the Royal Navy took into service as HMS Cesar. She was armed with 18 guns, had a crew of 86 men, and was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Monsieur Louis Francois Hector Fourré. The French were expecting the attack and put up a strong resistance. The British lost six men killed, 36 wounded and 21 missing. Indefatigable alone losing two killed and 11 wounded. This cutting out expedition resulted in the participants qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "16 July Boat Service 1806".
On the 19th of October 1806, Indefatigable, Hazard, and Atalante captured the chasse marees Achille, Jenny, and Marianne. On the 5th of December, 1807 Indefatigable captured the Pamelia., Then on Boxing Day, Indefatigable accompanied by Tribune captured the American ship Eliza.

On the 7th of January, 1808 Indefatigable and Tribune took the French Galiot Fanny and her cargo. Then on the 31st of July in that same year, Indefatigable, in company with the gun-brig Conflict captured the letter of marque Diane, which was on her way to Ille de France, carrying naval stores, as well as letters and dispatches, those latter of which her captain threw overboard during the chase. She was six armed with fourteen 9 and 6 pounder guns, and had a crew of 68 men. She had left the Gironde the evening before on this, her second voyage, to the Indian Ocean.

On the 19th of August, Indefatigable, still in company with Conflict, captured the Adele. In the December of that year a distribution of £10,000 was payable for the proceeds coming from Diane and Adele. On the 1st and 9th of September, 1808 Indefatigable captured two American ships, Sally and Peggy. Theseus and Impeteuex were in company with her at the time. On the 1st of November Indefatigable captured Bonne Louise.

On the 14th of January, 1809 Indefatigable captured the French privateer Lugger Clarisse in the Channel. She was pierced for 14 guns but had only three mounted. She had left Saint-Malo on the previous evening and had not captured any prizes. At the time of the capture, Amazon, Iris, Ralieigh, and Goldfinch were in sight. They shared with Indefatigable in the proceeds for the hull, but not the bounty money for the captured crew. On the 20th of the following month Statira captured the French schooner Matilda whilst Indefatigable was in company.

Indefatigable arrived at the Basque Roads on the 25th of that month, and captured two vessels, the Danish ship Neptunus on th 24th of March and the French ship Nymphe on the 28th. At the capture of Neptunus Indefatigable was in company with the sloops Foxhound and Goldfinch. Foxhound was also in company for the capture of Nymphe.

In the April of that year, Indefatigable participated in the battle of the Basque Roads. She was engaged on the 12th of April but withdrew on the 13th with no casualties. The action earned her crew another clasp to the Naval General Service Medal: "Basque Roads 1809"

In the October of that year Indefatigable came under the command of Captain Henry E. R. Baker, succeeded by Captain John Broughton in the December of that year, and who would remain in command until 1812.
On the 11th of January, 1810, Indefatigable captured Mouche No 26 near Cap de Penas, whilst under the command of Enseigne de vausseau provisorie Fleury. She had sailed from Pasajes with despatches for Ille de France. On the following day Mouche foundered close to the Penmarks and Fleury went down with his ship.
Four months later, on the 6th of May Indefatigable with Scipion and Piercer in company captured two French chasse marees, Camilla and Bonne Rencontre. Next, Indefatigable captured Flora on the 13th of the month following. Then on the 20th of October she re-captured the Portuguese brig Intrigua. Then on the 15th of January, 1811, Dryad captured Matilda and her cargo whilst Indefatigable and Lyra were in sight.

In the June of 1812, with Captain John Fyffe now taking up her command, Indefatigable was cruising on the South American station, where she visited the Galapagos Islands. During this cruise she gave the second largest island, now known as Santa Cruz island, its own English name – Indefatigable.

By July Indefatigable was back in Portsmouth, when news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 with the United States reached Britain. The Royal Navy immediately seized all American vessels then in British ports. Indefatigable was among the Royal Navy vessels then lying at Spithead off Portsmouth and so was entitled to a share in the grant for the American ships Belleville, Janus, Aeos, Ganges, and Leonidas seized there on the 31st of July.
On the 17th of September Indefatigable, Hearty, Desiree, Drake, Primrose, and Cretan shared in the capture of the Dankbarheide. When the Gun-Brig Hearty detained the Prussian vessel Friede on the 29th of the month, Indefatigable, Desiree, Primrose, Cretan, Drake, again took a share either because they were in company, or by agreement.

Indefatigable was reported to have been at Lima on the 11th of July, 1815, about to sail for the Galipagos for a second visit.

Fate.

After a most illustrious career, Indefatigable was finally paid off in 1815. She was broken up at Sheerness in the August of 1816.

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HMS Intrepid (1770)



HMS Intrepid was designed by John Williams as an Intrepid Class, 64 gun, third rate ship of the line,built by M/shipwright Joseph Harris until the July of 1767 and completed by William Grey at Woolwich. Ordered on the 16th of November, 1765 and approved in the following month, she was laid down in the January of 1767, and launched on the 4th of December, 1770. She was completed on the 31st of January, 1771.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Intrepid
Ordered:	16 November 1765
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard (M/Shipwright Joseph Harris to July 1767; completed by William Gray)
Laid down:	January 1767
Launched:	4 December 1770
Fate:	Sold out of the service, 1818
Notes:	Participated in: Battle of the Chesapeake
General characteristics
Class and type:	Intrepid Class 64 gun ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1374​65⁄94
Length:	159 ft 6 in (48.6 m) (keel) 131 ft 0 in (39.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 4 in (13.5 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft 0 in (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24 pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 9-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 x 24 pounder Carronades from 1794

Service.

HMS Intrepid was commissioned in 1770 for the Falklands Islands dispute. She was then fitted as a guardship at Portsmouth in the October of 1771. The following year she was fitted for the East Indies at a cost of £5,547.5.7d.
On the 17th of April, 1772 Intrepid sailed to the Dutch East Indies. The ship's commander for the journey was Captain John Hunter, who later became an admiral and the second Governor of New South Wales. On her return to England she was laid up at Plymouth in the May of 1773, and paid off in the April of 1775. She was fitted for Home service at Plymouth between the July of 1778 and the April of 1779. She was then transferred to Portsmouth where she was refitted and coppered between the May and December of that year at a cost of £5,071.2.4d.She was recommissioned in the January of 1779 and sailed for the Leeward Islands on the 30th of January 1780.
Under her Captain Antony James Pye Malloy, on the 5th of September 1781 she took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake. The combatants were a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and the French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul, the Comte de Grasse. During the action, Intrepid positioned initially in the Van, but in what was to became the Rear during the battle, lost a total of 21 killed and 35 wounded. She was paid off in the August of 178 after wartime service. Between the January and September of 1787 she underwent middling repairs at Portsmouth, and was fitted for service and recommissioned in the June of 1790 under Captain Seymour Finch for the Spanish Armament. She was paid off in the September of 1791.Fitted again at Portsmouth between the March and July of 1793 she was recommissioned under Captain Charles Carpenter, took part in the occupation of Toulon and on the 20th of May 1794 she sailed for Jamaica.

The French Revolutionary Wars.

On the 31st of July, Intrepid and Chichester captured the French 36 gun Brig- sloop La Serine off San Domingo The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Serin.
Her next capture was on the 1st of February, 1795 when she took the privateers Le Perroux, La Republicain Pagest, and Le Sans Pareil.

On the 23rd of April, 1796, Intrepid was patrolling near Cap- Francois looking for reinforcements expected from Cork when she encountered a French corvette. After a chase of ten hours, the corvette ran ashore in a cove to the east of Porto Plata, where her crew abandoned her, enabling the British to retrieve her. She turned out to be La Percante, armed with twenty 9 pounder guns and six brass 2 pounders, with a crew of 200 men under the command of Citoyen Jacque Clement Tourtellet. She had left La Rochelle on the 6th of December, 1795 under orders from the Minister of Marine and Colonies not to communicate with any vessel during her passage. The British took her into service as the sixth rate HMS Jamaica.

Intrepid returned to Portsmouth in the November of 1896 and was paid off. Between the following month and the May of 1797 she underwent a refit costing £15,239. She was recommissioned by Captain Robert Parker during her refit but unfortunately he was drowned in the November of that year.

Captain Sir William Hargood, who would be her captain until 1792, then took up the command of Intrepid and sailed with a fleet of nine East Indiamen to the Cape of Good Hope. She then sailed for the East Indies in the March of 1798 where she remained until the Peace of Amiens in 1802, having defended Macau at the Macau incident in January 1799.

On the 4th of April, 1801, Intrepid captured Chance. The prize agents business failed and what prize money could be recovered from his estate was not paid until 1828.

The Napoleonic Wars.

Having returned to England Intrepid was paid off and between the October of 1804 and the July of 1805 she underwent repairs at Daniel Brent of Rotherhithe for £ 38,215. Her fitting out was completed at Deptford in the August of that year when she was recommissioned under Captain Philip Woodhouse who would command her until 1807.

She sailed for the med to join Sidney Smith’s squadron at Napls in the June of 1806. Then in 1807 she came under Captain John Laugharne, followed by Captain Richard Worsley in the October of that year, and sailed for the Leeward Islands on the 30th of November. She was with Hood’s squadron at Madeira between the 24th and the 26th of December 1808 under Captain Warwick Lake in an acting capacity.

In the February of 1809 she was under Captain Christopher Nesham at the capture of Martinique.
In the April of that year, a strong French squadron arrived at the Iles des Saintes, south of Guadeloupe. There they were blockaded until the 14th of April, when a British force under Major-GeneralFrederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in Acasta, invaded and captured the islands. Intrepid was among the naval vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of those islands.

Fate.

On her return to England Intrepid was fitted as a receiving ship at Plymouth in the May of 1810. She then went into Ordinary until 1815.

On the 26th of March, 1828, the "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered for sale at Plymouth "Intrepid, of 50 guns and 1374 tons". The Navy sold Intrepid for £3,030 on that day to D. Beatson.