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Fairy, 1778
Type: Sloop ; Armament 16
Launched : 1778 ;
Disposal date or year : 1811
Complement: 120
Notes:
Plymouth 26 Apr 1785 Arrived from a cruise.
Plymouth 27 May 1785 Arrived from a cruise
Plymouth 1 Jun 1785 Arrived from a cruise.
Plymouth 13 Sep 1785 Arrived from a cruise.
Plymouth 24 Sep 1785 Arrived and remain in Cawsand Bay.
22 May 1796 Fairy, Resolution, and Racoon captured the French privateer Hazard in the Channel.
19 Jul 1796 Sloops Fairy and Racoon, and Resolution, Flora, Venus (1), and Grace cutters, captured the Aurora,.
19 Jul 1796 Sloop Fairy, and Flora Hired Cutter, captured the Vriendschaft.
5 Oct 1797 sunk a French privateer, Name unknown, off Boulogne.
13 Nov 1797 the ship's boats of the Fairy and Fox captured the French lugger privateer Epervier on the coast of France.
11 Jan 1799 captured the Spanish privateer N. S. del Pont St Bonaventa, 8 guns, 55 men, on the Channel station.
5-6 Feb 1800 chase and capture of the French 38-gun frigate Pallas, subsequently purchased into the Service as the Pique.
28 Feb 1800 a court martial was held on board the Gladiator at Portsmouth on Mr. William Dimock Smith, Boatswain of the sloop Fairy, for drunkenness, neglect of duty and behaving in a contemptuous manner to his captain. The charge being proved and he was sentenced by the court to be rendered incapable of serving again as an officer in the RN, and to serve before the mast on board such other of HM ships as the Commander in Chief at Spithead shall direct.
May 1805 Jamaica Station