Английская Википедия:HMS Belleisle (1761)

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Belleisle was the French East Indiaman Bertin, launched in 1760 that the British Royal Navy captured in 1761 and commissioned as the third rate HMS Belleisle.

Capture

Шаблон:HMS and Шаблон:HMS captured Bertin on 3 April 1761 and sent her into Plymouth. There the Royal Navy purchased her.Шаблон:Sfnp (The prize crew from Hero shared in the proceeds of Venus and HeroШаблон:'s capture of the French privateer Lyon on 6 April 1761.)[1]

Career

Belleisle was fitted in August 1761 and fitted in 1762.Шаблон:Sfnp She shared in the prize money awarded to the British squadron that captured the French East Indiaman St Priest on 11 March 1762.[2] Belleisle was paid off in July 1763.Шаблон:Sfnp

She was fitted as a guard ship at Plymouth in January 1764, and then as a troopship in May 1765 and again in March 1768. Between March 1771 and April 1772 she underwent a small to middling repair at Plymouth.Шаблон:Sfnp

Between August 1776 and January 1777, she again underwent fitting as a guard ship. She was refitted between December 1777 and February 1778. She twice underwent fitting at Plymouth for the East Indies in April to June 1778 and in February 1779.Шаблон:Sfnp

Between March and June 1772 she was at Chatham, receiving an all-carronade armament and the masts of a 60-gun ship. She was paid off in March 1783.Шаблон:Sfnp

Fate

Belleisle was converted to a lazarette between August and December 1784. She was later transferred to Customs and struck from the Navy List. She was sold on 3 February 1819.Шаблон:Sfnp

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