HMS Boreas (1774)
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| Name: | HMS Boreas |
| Ordered: | 25 December 1770 |
| Builder: | Hugh Blaydes & Mr Hodgson, Hull |
| Laid down: | May 1771 |
| Launched: | 23 August 1774 |
| Completed: | 23 October 1775 at Chatham Dockyard |
| Commissioned: | August 1775 |
| Fate: | Sold to break up at Sheerness in May 1802 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Modified Mermaid-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 626 48⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 officers and men |
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HMS Boreas was a modified Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Charles Thompson.
On 31 August 1779 Boreas, under the command of Captain Charles Thompson, captured the French corvette Compas, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, which was carrying a cargo of sugar.Compas, which was armed en flute, put up resistance for about 20 minutes, with the result that she suffered nine men killed and wounded before she struck.Boreas was part of a squadron under the command of Rear Admiral of the Red Hyde Parker on the Jamaica station.
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