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A second batch of fifteen ships were ordered in 1776 to 1778 to meet the exigencies of the North American situation, and a final group of seven ships followed in 1782 to 1783 with only some minor modifications to include side gangways running flush with the quarterdeck and forecastle, and with solid
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Fate: Grounded off Fort Sullivan, South Carolina and burnt to avoid capture on 29 June 1776.
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Fate: Grounded and abandoned under fire off Point Judith, Connecticut on 6 November 1777.
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Fate: Lost with all hands in a hurricane off Martinique on 11 October 1780.
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Fate: Wrecked in a hurricane off Martinique on 11 October 1780.
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Fate: Sold for breaking up at Plymouth Dockyard on 9 June 1814.
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Fate: Sold at Deptford Dockyard to break up on 28 August 1816.
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on 17 April 1806. Sold at Deptford Dockyard on 28 August 1816.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Portsmouth Dockyard in November 1811.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Portsmouth Dockyard in August 1811.
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Fate: Captured by the French off Brest on 11 September 1778.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Woolwich Dockyard in January 1814.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Deptford Dockyard in August 1807.
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Completed: 12 February 1776 at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard.
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Fate: Taken to pieces at Plymouth Dockyard in May 1828.
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Fate: Sold at Portsmouth Dockyard on 1 September 1814.
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Fate: Wrecked off Great Yarmouth on 17 November 1803.
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Fate: Wrecked in the Elbe Estuary on 1 February 1799.
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Completed: 5 October 1775 at Chatham Royal Dockyard.
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Completed: 17 December 1778 at Portsmouth Dockyard.
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Completed: 4 September 1779 at Portsmouth Dockyard.
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Completed: 23 September 1777 at Sheerness Dockyard.
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Fate: Sold at Portsmouth Dockyard on 3 April 1817.
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Completed: 26 September 1779 at Deptford Dockyard.
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Built by: John Randall & Company, Rotherhithe.
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Built by: Jolly, Leathers & Barton, Liverpool.
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Completed: 28 January 1778 at Portsmouth Dockyard.
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Completed: 15 September 1778 at Plymouth Dockyard.
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Enterprise class frigate
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Full-rigged ship
frigates
sixth-rate
Royal Navy
John Williams
Falklands Islands emergency
Siren
Fox
Surprise
Enterprise
Actaeon
Proserpine
Medea
Hillhouse
Andromeda
Aurora
Sibyl
Brilliant
Pomona
Crescent
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