HMS Fox (1780)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Fox
Ordered: 10 December 1778
Builder: George Parsons, Bursledon, Hampshire
Laid down: February 1779
Launched: 2 June 1780
Completed: By 27 July 1780
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Fate: Broken up in April 1816
General characteristics
Class and type: 32-gun Active-class fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen: 696 ​85⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 126 ft 2 1⁄4 in (38.462 m) (gundeck)
  • 104 ft 1 in (31.72 m) (keel)
Beam: 35 ft 5 3⁄4 in (10.814 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Crew: 250
Armament:
  • Upper deck: 26  × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 ×  6-pounder guns + 4 ×  24-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 ×  6-pounder guns + 2 ×  24-pounder carronades

HMS Fox was a 32-gun Active-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 2 June 1780 at Bursledon, Hampshire by George Parsons.

Fox was sent to the Caribbean in late 1781 and in January the following year under Captain Thomas Windsor captured two Spanish frigates.[2] In March 1783 under Captain George Stoney captured the Spanish frigate Santa Catalina.[3]

In March 1797, near Visakhapatnam, Fox captured the French privateer Modeste, under Jean-Marie Dutertre.[4]

Took part in the bloodless Raid on Manila in January 1798.

Because Fox served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.

She was broken up in April 1816.

Sources

  1. ↑ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. ↑ Southey, Thomas (1827). Chronological History of the West Indies: In Three Volumes, Volume 2. Longman. p. 540.
  3. ↑ Beatson. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain. p. 533.
  4. ↑ Demerliac, p. 308, no 2898

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (2003). Nomenclature des navires français (in French). 1792-1799. Nice: Éditions A.N.C.R.E.
  • Hannings, Bud. (2012). The War of 1812: A Complete Chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6385-5
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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