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HMS Triton (1773)

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Name
  
HMS Triton

Laid down
  
February 1771

Construction started
  
February 1771

Builder
  
Buckler's Hard

Ordered
  
25 December 1770

Commissioned
  
August 1775

Launched
  
1 October 1773

Completed
  
4 November 1775 at Portsmouth Dockyard

Fate
  
Taken to pieces at Deptford in January 1796

HMS Triton was a modified Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Skeffington Lutwidge.

References

HMS Triton (1773) Wikipedia