Maritime History

HMS Crescent (1784)

HMS Crescent was a 36-gun Flora-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1784, Crescent spent the first years of the French Revolutionary Wars on blockade duties in the English Channel, during which she captured the French frigate Réunion in the action of 20 October 1793. On 17 August 1795, Crescent was part of a British fleet under Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir George Elphinstone which forced the surrender of a Batavian Navy squadron at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay. After being sent to the West Indies in April 1799, Crescent returned to Europe in February 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars and was wrecked off the coast of Jutland on 6 December 1808.

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See also

• ▸Kollam Mail Express
• ▸Chi Tu
• ▸HMS Paragon (1913)

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