Name HMS Cyclops Laid down 3 April 1778 Construction started 3 April 1778 | Ordered 6 March 1778 Commissioned July 1779 Launched 31 July 1779 | |
Builder James Menetone & Son, Limehouse Completed 26 September 1779 (at Deptford Dockyard) | ||
HMS Cyclops was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Cyclops was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain John Robinson.
In January 1783 she captured the French 14-gun brig Railleur on the North American station.
Because Cyclops 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, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.
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