HMS_Thisbe_(1783)

HMS <i>Thisbe</i> (1783)

HMS Thisbe (1783)

Enterprise-class Royal Navy frigate

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Thisbe.

HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

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Service

Thisbe on fire on 4 January 1786, caused by a lightning strike.
Nicholas Matthew Condy. A second lightning bolt on the same day had set her Main sail, Top on fire

Thisbe was first commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robertson. Because Thisbe served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[lower-alpha 1]

In 1804 Thisbe was in the Mediterranean. There she captured a privateer that she sent into Corfu. Thisbe also recaptured Wight, Ford, master, which had been sailing from Zant to London when the privater had captured her. '"Wight arrived at Portsmouth in September.[3]

Notes

  1. A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[2]

Citations

  1. [1]
    "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. [2]
    "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.
  3. [3]
    "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4490. 21 September 1805. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633072. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

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