Name HMS Boston Laid down 5 May 1761 Construction started 5 May 1761 Builder Rotherhithe | Ordered 24 March 1761 Commissioned May 1762 Launched 11 May 1762 | |
Completed 16 July 1762 at Deptford Dockyard Fate Taken to pieces at Plymouth, May 1811 | ||
HMS Boston was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1762. She served during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War, and was broken up in 1811.
On 16 April 1797, Boston was 18 leagues NNE of Cape Finisterre when after a six-hour chase she captured the French privateer Enfant de la Patrie, of 16 guns and 130 men. Enfant de la Patrie was eight days out of Bordeaux but had not taken anything. The captain of the privateer was drunk, and so decided to resist, firing his guns, small arms, and running his vessel into Boston. His rashness resulted in five of his crew being killed, ten wounded, and he himself drowning.
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