British Frigate HMS Cleopatra (1779) Ships Biography

[Cpt Kangaroo]

HMS Cleopatra (1779)

Great Britain
Class: Amazon - Fifth Rate
(Amazon Class Frigates URL)
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...igates-of-1773
Armament: 32 guns (26x12pdr, 6x6pdr, 6x18pdr Carronades)
Compliment: 220
Launched: November 1779
Length: 126ft 6.5 (38.6m) in overall, 104ft 7.5 (31.9m) in keel
Weight or Tonnage: 689 bm
Draft: 8 ft (2.4384 m)

Notable Captains:
George Murray October 1779 - January 1783
Henry Harvey January 1783 - April 1783
Alexander Ball January 1793 - June 1795
Charles Penrose June 1795 - September 1797
Israel Pellew September 1797 - 1802
Charles Elphinstone July1804 - (only captain for 1 month)
Sir Robert Laurie August 1804 - February 1805
John Wright July 1805 - September 1806
Robert Simpson September 1806 - August 1808
Samuel Pechell August 1808 - October 1810
Charles Austen October 1810 - July 1811
Samuel Pechell July 1811 - December 1812
Charles Gill December 1812 - 1814
Captain William M'Culloch in 1814

Theatres of War:
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War:
Initially assigned to serve with the Western squadron and was soon active in activities to suppress French cruisers and privateers.
15 June 1780 Cleopatra and HMS Apollo captured the 26-gun Stanisland off Ostend
11 November 1780 Captured the privateer Comtesse de Provence
1781 Escorted a convoy to the Baltic
5 August 1781 Involved in the Battle of Dogger Bank
April 1783 paid off, fitted for ordinary at Sheerness
1790 Began a Great Repair
January 1793 Recommissioned

French Revolutionary War:
24 March 1793 Captured the privateer Trois Amis (in company with HMS Lizard)
1794 Operating from Nova Scotia
22 April 1795 Capture French ship Aurore
1795 captured the 12-gun privateer Hirondelle
1797 English Channel duty
26 March1798 Captured the 16-gun privateer Emilie
August 1798 returned to Halifax
1798 Operated off the American coasts, ranging as far as the Caribbean and Cuba
22 March 1801 Captured a Spanish gunboat (in company with HMS Andromache)
1802 and 1804 returned to Britain, under repair at Woolwich

Napoleonic War:
July 1804 Recommissioned
28 January 1805 Attacked, but then as captured by the 40-gun French frigate Ville de Milan
23 February 1805 HMS Leander (50) recaptured the Cleopatra with crew intact, along with the Ville de Milan
February 1805 returned to Halifax to refit.
July 1805 Recommissioned
22 January 1809 action with the 40-gun Topaze (in company with HMS Jason and HMS Hazard who captured her)
February 1809 present at the Invasion of Martinique
July 1814 paid off

Fate:
21 September 1814 broken up at Deptford