Name HMS Boreas Laid down May 1771 Construction started May 1771 Builder Kingston upon Hull | Ordered 25 December 1770 Commissioned August 1775 Launched 23 August 1774 | |
Completed 23 October 1775 at Chatham Dockyard Fate Sold to break up at Sheerness in May 1802 | ||
HMS Boreas was a modified Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Charles Thompson.
On 31 August 1779 Boreas, under the command of Captain Charles Thompson, captured the French corvette Compas, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, which was carrying a cargo of sugar. Compas, which was armed en flute, put up resistance for about 20 minutes, with the result that she suffered nine men killed and wounded before she struck. Boreas was part of a squadron under the command of Rear Admiral of the Red Hyde Parker on the Jamaica station.
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