HMS Quebec (1781)
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| Name: | HMS Quebec |
| Ordered: | 15 September 1779 |
| Builder: | George Parsons, Burlesdon, on the Hamble River |
| Launched: | 24 May 1781 |
| Decommissioned: | 1812 |
| Fate: | Sold in July 1816 for breaking up. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 32-gun Frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 700 tons |
| Sail plan: | Frigate |
| Complement: | 250 |
| Armament: | 32 |
HMS Quebec was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1816. She sailed under various captains, participating in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. During these wars she captured many enemy merchantmen and smaller privateers in northern or Caribbean waters. She was built by George Parsons at Bursledon, Hampshire.
Throughout 1782, Christopher Mason commanding, HMS Quebec operated in North American waters in the final year of the War of American Independence. On 22 February that year she captured the schooner Betsy, and in April two ships laden with flour, oil, bale goods, salt and wine. On 20 December she was involved when Diomede and Astraea captured the American frigate South Carolina, for which she shared in prize money awarded eighteen months later.
Admiral John MacBride became commander-in-chief on the Downs station, commanding a frigate squadron with his flag in Cumberland, later transferring his flag to Quebec. He took possession of Ostend after the French retreat in early 1793, and in October transported reinforcements under General Sir Charles Grey to assist in the defence of Dunkirk. In late October 1793 much needed reinforcements and artillery supplies were landed by Quebec at Nieuport, which was then being besieged by French forces, a relief force from Ostend arrived, and the French withdrew.
From March 1794 a taskforce under Vice-Admiral Sir John Jervis, with land forces under General Sir Charles Grey, operated against French possessions in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. Quebec was an active participant, supplying some of the assault forces at Martinique (late March) where she lost one man killed. St Lucia fell on 4 April, whereupon Quebec (under Captain Josias Rogers), Blanche, Ceres and Rose were ordered to seize the smaller islands, the Saints, which they did without loss on 5 April.
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