HMS Cyclops (1779)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Cyclops |
| Ordered: | 6 March 1778 |
| Builder: | James Menetone & Son, Limehouse |
| Laid down: | 3 April 1778 |
| Launched: | 31 July 1779 |
| Completed: | 26 September 1779 (at Deptford Dockyard) |
| Commissioned: | July 1779 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up 1 September 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 602 80⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 33 ft 9 in (10.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 officers and men |
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HMS Cyclops was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Cyclops was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain John Robinson.
In January 1783 she captured the French 14-gun brig Railleur on the North American station.
Because Cyclops served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.
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