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HMS Fortitude (1780)

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suffered extensive damage to her hull, masts, rigging and sails, particularly from heated shot, and had three lower-deck guns disabled. In all, she lost six men killed and 56 men wounded, including eight dangerously. The design of the tower so impressed the British that they made it the model for
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lost her fore topmast and had only a frigate's main mast left, rendering her useless. She was also lightly manned and short of powder. In the subsequent exchange the French recaptured
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as Parker's flagship. After a desperate, bloody battle in which neither combatant gained any advantage, both sides drew off.
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set sail for Britain with a large convoy. On 7 October 1795 the convoy sighted a large French squadron, off
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that they would later construct in Great Britain and many of their colonies.
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on 13 July 1795. The action on 13 March resulted in Admiral
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attacked a tower at Mortella Point, on the coast of
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Index

HMS Fortitude

Great Britain
Randall
Battle of Dogger Bank (1781)
Albion-class
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
Quarterdeck
Forecastle
third-rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
Rotherhithe

Richard Bickerton
English Channel
second relief
Gibraltar
Fourth Anglo–Dutch War
Hyde Parker's
HMS Victory
Battle of Dogger Bank
William Young
Sir Samuel Hood's
Juno
Corsica
Sir John Moore
Martello Towers

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