HMS Juno (1780)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Juno |
| Ordered: | 21 October 1778 |
| Builder: | Robert Batson & Co, Limehouse |
| Laid down: | December 1778 |
| Launched: | 30 September 1780 |
| Completed: | 14 December 1780 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Schiermonnikoog 12 Augt. 1799" |
| Fate: | Broken up in July 1811 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate |
| Tons burthen: | 689 29⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 35 ft 2 1⁄4 in (10.7 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 1 1⁄2 in (3.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 220 |
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HMS Juno was a Royal Navy 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate. This frigate served during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Juno was ordered on 21 October 1778 and laid down in December that year at the yards of the shipbuilder Robert Batson & Co, of Limehouse. She was launched on 30 September 1780 and completed by 14 December 1780 that year at Deptford Dockyard. £8,500.1.5d was paid to the builder, with a further £8,184.18.1d being spent on fitting her out and having her coppered.
Juno was commissioned under the command of her first captain, James Montagu, in September 1780. Montagu commanded her for the next five years, initially in British waters and the Atlantic.
On 10 February 1781 Juno and the sloop Zebra captured the American privateer Revanche (or Revenge) off Beachy Head. Montagu then sailed the Juno in early 1782 to join Richard Bickerton's squadron operating in the East Indies.
She was present at the Battle of Cuddalore on 20 June 1783, and returned to Britain to be paid off in March 1785. After fitting out the following month Juno was placed in ordinary. She spent the next five years in this state, with the exception of a small repair at Woolwich Dockyard in 1788 at a cost of £9,042.
Juno returned to active service in May 1790, now under the command of Captain Samuel Hood. Hood sailed to Jamaica in mid-1790, but had returned to Britain and paid off the Juno in September 1791. Hood however remained in command, and the Juno was fitted out and recommissioned, undergoing a refit at Portsmouth in January 1793. Hood initially cruised in the English Channel after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, capturing the privateers Entreprenant on 17 February, Palme on 2 March and, together with HMS Aimable, Laborieux in April.
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