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Pearl, 1762
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 32
Launched : 1762 ;
Disposal date or year : 1832
Notes:
1779 Captured Spanish frigate "Santa Monica."
1780 Captured French frigate "Esperance."
13 Apr 1797 Pearl and Flora captured the French privateer Incroyable on the passage between Lisbon, and Englan.
24 Apr 1798 escaped from the French frigates Régénérée and Vertu near Sierra-Leone.
10 Oct 1798 destroyed a French privateer, name unknown, under Dominica.
14 Oct 1798 captured the French privateer Scaevola off Antigua.
Between 7 Nov and 10 Dec 1798 captured the French privateer Independence on the Leeward Island station.
31 Aug 1800 captured on the Mediterranean Station Two French Settees, Names unknown, laden with Earthenware, from Marseilles. : the Settee La Gloire, in Ballast : and the Spanish Settee, Name unknown, in Ballast.
11 Oct 1800 scuttled on the Mediterranean Station the French Settee, (Name unknown,) laden with Coals, from Bone bound to Marseilles : burnt a French Settee, Name unknown, laden with empty Casks, from Bone to Marseilles : and captured the French Ketch La Virge de Bon Secure, laden with Brandy and Wine, from Adge bound to Nice.
14 Oct 1800 captured on the Mediterranean Station the Genoese Ship Saint Juan, laden with Oil, Lemons, and empty Casks, from Bone bound to Cette : and the Genoese Ship, (Name unknown,) laden with Oil, Lemons, and empty Casks, from Bone bound to Cette.
15 Oct 1800 captured on the Mediterranean Station the French Settee La Virge Rosaria, laden with Oil, from Nice bound to Agde : the French Settee St. Joseph, laden with Tanners' Bark and Oil. from Nice bound to Adge : the French Settee, (Name unknown,) in Ballast, from Nice bound to Adge : and burnt the Fiench Settee, (Name unknown) with Oil, from Nice bound to Adge.
16 Nov 1800 captured on the Mediterranean station, the Danish Brig Pelican, laden with Provisions, Bale Goods, &c. from Amsterdam and Malaga bound to Leghorn.
8 Mar to 2 Sep 1801 Off the coast of Egypt.
1 Jul 1801 captured the French privateer - in the Mediterranean.
8 Aug 1801 the frigates Phœnix, Pomone, and Pearl, captured the Carrère, a Venetian-built frigate of 1013 tons sailing under French colours, which was added to the British navy as an 18-pounder 36-gun frigate.
13-14 Sep 1801 men from the ship's company involved in operations ashore at Porto-Ferrajo.
May 1805 Spithead as a Slop Ship.
1825 Renamed Prothee.