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347:Fate: Sold at Woolwich Dockyard on 24 April 1783.
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527:Sibyl
442:Medea
273:Siren
116:Built
103:Medea
37:, or
1319:None
1288:Dido
1267:Rose
974:Dido
893:Rose
226:The
161:Beam
1098:Fox
300:Fox
190:200
1349::
135:27
41:,
33:,
209::
77:)
71:(
66:)
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