HMS Camilla (1776)
The Penobscot Expedition naval battle, by Dominic Serres
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| Name: | HMS Camilla |
| Ordered: | 15 April 1773 |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | May 1774 |
| Launched: | 20 April 1776 |
| Completed: | 9 July 1776 |
| Commissioned: | May 1776 |
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| Class and type: | Sphinx-class post ship |
| Tons burthen: | 432 56⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 1 in (9.2 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft 8 in (2.9 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 140 (134 from 1794) |
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HMS Camilla was a Royal Navy 20-gun Sphinx-class post ship. Camilla was built in Chatham Dockyard to a design by John Williams and was launched in 1776. She served in the American Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars, before being sold in 1831.
Camilla was commissioned in May 1776 and sailed for North America in August. There she captured the privateer schooner Independence, John Gill, Master, of six carriage guns, eight swivels, and 50 men. She was on a cruise from Boston.Camilla also captured Admiral Montague, sailing from Hispaniola to Rhode Island with a cargo of molasses and coffee, Chance sailing to Georgia with coffee, and Polly, sailing to Surinam in ballast.
On 23 January 1777, 12 miles (19 km) north of Charlestown, South Carolina, Camilla, under Captain Charles Phipps, captured the American sloop Fanny, which was heading to that port from Cap-Français, Hispaniola, with a cargo of molasses. Then in February Captain John Linzee took command of Camilla.
On 20 February 1777, Camilla and Perseus, Captain George Keith Elphinstone, captured the 170-ton snow, Adventure. They captured her 99 miles (159 km) northeast of Antigua, British West Indies, as she was going from Newburyport, Massachusetts to St. Eustatius, Netherlands West Indies, with a cargo of fish, staves, spermacaeti candles and pine planks.Camilla fired eleven shots before Adventure would stop. Perseus and Camilla shared the prize money. Eight days latter, Camilla captured Ranger, William Davies, Master, which was sailing in ballast from St. Lucia.Fanny, Adventure, and Ranger were all condemned and sold at Antigua.
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