HMS Intrepid (1770)
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| Name: | HMS Intrepid |
| Ordered: | 16 November 1765 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard (M/Shipwright Joseph Harris to July 1767; completed by William Gray) |
| Laid down: | January 1767 |
| Launched: | 4 December 1770 |
| Fate: | Sold out of the service, 1818 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Intrepid-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1374 65⁄94 |
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| Beam: | 44 ft 5 in (13.54 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Intrepid was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 December 1770 at Woolwich. She was sold in 1828.
In 1772 Intrepid sailed to the Dutch East Indies. The ship's master on this journey was John Hunter, later an admiral and the second Governor of New South Wales.
She took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781.
In February 1796, Intrepid was patrolling near Cap-François looking for reinforcements expected from Cork when she encountered a French corvette. After a chase of ten hours, the corvette ran ashore in a cove to the east of Porto Plata, where her crew abandoned her, enabling the British to retrieve her. She turned out to be Perçante, armed with twenty 9-pounder guns and six brass 2-pounders, with a crew of 200 men under the command of Citoyen Jacque Clement Tourtellet. She had left La Rochelle on 6 December 1795 under orders from the Minister of Marine and Colonies not to communicate with any vessel on the way. The British took her into service as the sixth-rate HMS Jamaica. Musquito must have been in company or in sight as she shared in the proceeds of the capture.
Captain Sir William Hargood took command of Intrepid and convoyed a fleet of East Indiamen to China, where he remained until the Peace of Amiens in 1802, defending Macau at the Macau Incident of January 1799.
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