HMS Roebuck (1774)
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...
