About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Enterprise class frigate, Grand Turk (frigate), HMS Actaeon (1775), HMS Actaeon (1831), HMS Alligator (1787), HMS Andromache (1832), HMS Andromeda (1777), HMS Arab (1798), HMS Aurora (1777), HMS Boreas (1774), HMS Boreas (1806), HMS Brilliant (1779), HMS Calliope (1837), HMS Carysfort (1836), HMS Cerberus (1758), HMS Circe (1785), HMS Comus (1806), HMS Coventry (1757), HMS Crescent (1779), HMS Cyclops (1779), HMS Dido (1784), HMS Dolphin (1751), HMS Enterprise (1774), HMS Fox (1773), HMS Greyhound (1773), HMS Guadeloupe (1763), HMS Hind (1749), HMS Hind (1785), HMS Hussar (1763), HMS Hussar (1784), HMS Iris (1840), HMS Juno (1844), HMS Lapwing (1785), HMS Laurel (1779), HMS Liverpool (1758), HMS Lyme (1748), HMS Medea (1778), HMS Mercury (1779), HMS Mermaid (1749), HMS Mermaid (1761), HMS Narcissus (1781), HMS Nemesis (1780), HMS Pegasus (1778), HMS Pegasus (1779), HMS Pomona (1778), HMS Proselyte (1804), HMS Proserpine (1777), HMS Resource (1778), HMS Rose (1783), HMS Seahorse (1748), HMS Sibyl (1779), HMS Siren (1773), HMS Solebay (1763), HMS Stag (1758), HMS Surprise (1774), HMS Tartar (1756), HMS Thisbe (1783), HMS Triton (1773), HMS Unicorn (1748), HMS Valeur (1759), HMS Vestal (1779), Sixth-rate. Excerpt: HMS Mercury was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built during the American War of Independence and serving during the later years of that conflict. She continued to serve during the years of peace and had an active career during the French Revolutionary and most of the Napoleonic Wars, until being broken up in 1814. Mercury was ordered from Peter Mestaer, at the King and Queen Shipyard, Rotherhithe on the River Thames on 22 January 1778 was laid down there on 25 March 1778. She was launched on 9 December 1779 and was completed by 24 February 1780 after being fitted out...