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DOLPHIN (20) 6th rate Built in 1731, Deptford.
Captured in 1760.

  • 1739 Capt. L. Augustus BEAUCLERK. Mediterranean. 1740 Capt. Francis HOLBURNE, appointed 15 February, cruising in the Channel during which he captured two small Spanish privateers, one, called the Nuestra Senora del Carmin, mounting six carriage and four swivel guns, with a crew of 40 men, the other of six guns and forty-four men. After spending much of 1741 on the Leith station he returned to the Channel where in June he captured and carried into Plymouth the privateer St. Juan Baptiste of 18 carriage and 14 swivel guns with 102 men. On 12th. August he was ordered to escort transports for Bristol from the Downs as far as Lundy and then continue to Glasgow and Fort William.
  • 1755 Renamed FIREBRAND.


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