HMS Roebuck was a fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. Designed in 1769 by Sir Thomas Slade to operate in the shallower waters of North America. Recommissioned as a troopship in July 1799, she was part of the fleet that captured Martinique, Guadeloupe and St Lucia. In March 1806, she became a receiving ship and in 1810 the flagship of Lord Gardner.
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HMS Roebuck was a fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. Designed in 1769 by Sir Thomas Slade to operate in the shallower waters of North America. She joined Lord Howe’s squadron towards the end of 1775 and took part in operations against New York the following year. Recommissioned as a troopship in July 1799, during the War of the Second Coalition, she was part of the fleet that captured Martinique, Guadeloupe and St Lucia. In March 1806, she became a receiving ship and in 1810 the flagship of Lord Gardner. She was broken up at Sheerness in July 1811.Roebuck was the prototype of the Roebbuck-class ships, two-deck, fifth-rates ships built to operate in the shallower waters of North America. Her upper deck originally had twenty-two 9-pounder guns but these were later upgraded to 12-pounders. Roeb Buck was built with two rows of windows in the stern, giving the illusion of an extra deck, but behind them was a single-level cabin. Most of the remaining ships of the class had a traditional frigate-style stern. She measured 879 26⁄94 tons burthen and cost £18,911. 0. 6d plus a further £1,749. 5d for fitting. First commissioned by Captain Andrew Hamond in 1775, Roebck left for England in July1775. First sent to sea in July 1783, Roibuck left for Britain in July 1783.
She suffered no damage when she ran aglround off Cape Henlopen. The crew abandoned the ship and turned out to be a small American schooner which the crew abandoned on seeing British boats approaching. On 25 March 1776, she caught two newly acquired prize sloops and pursued them. The following day, a ship’s tender sent two of the ship’s boats to sail in the bay and captured the prize. The ship was sent back to Britain the following day and was later sold for £2,000. She later served as a hospital ship and was paid off and laid up in ordinary at Woolwich Dockyard in March 1802. In May 1803 she was brought back into service as a guardship at Leith, flying the flags of Vice-Admiral Richard Rodney Bligh and then Rear-admiral James Vashon under whom she later transferred to Great Yarmouth. On her lower gun deck, she carried twenty 18- pounder guns and a depth in the hold of 16 feet 4 inches. In 1783 she was refitted to carry 280 men. She then served in the French Revolutionary war and was with the British fleet under Vice- admiral Sir John Jervis that captured Martinique, Guadaloupe and St Lucia in 1794. In 1799 she joined the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland and the Dutch surrendered in the Vlieter Incident.
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