Name HMS Fox Laid down February 1779 Construction started February 1779 | Ordered 10 December 1778 Completed By 27 July 1780 Launched 2 June 1780 | |
Builder George Parsons, Bursledon, Hampshire Honours and
awards Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" | ||
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.
in March 1797, near Visakhapatnam, Fox captured the French privateer Modeste, under Jean-Marie Dutertre.
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.
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