Английская Википедия:HMS Gibraltar Prize

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HMS Gibraltar Prize, also known as HMS Gibraltar's Prize, was a sloop of the Royal Navy. She began life as the French privateer schooner Glaneur, but Шаблон:HMS captured her on 10 December 1756,[1] or February or March 1757; prize money was paid on 3 January 1758.[2] The Admiralty purchased her on 12 February 1757 for £795 9s and the Royal Navy took her into service under the name Gibraltar's Prize.[3] The Admiralty sold her in 1761.

Service

GibraltarШаблон:'s Prize was commissioned the day after her purchase. She then was reclassified in March 1757 as an unrated tender.[1]

On 16 April 1757, she sailed to North America from the Cove of Cork along with a fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Francis Holburne, for Halifax in Canada. There she was left behind with several other ships - the Windsor, the Arc-En-Ciel, the Nightingale, the Speedwell and the bomb-vessel Grenado - to defend the city of Halifax, as a fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Holburne left to reconnoitre Louisbourg. She had 12 guns at the time.[4]

Her captain at the time was John Stott, who was previously master of Шаблон:HMS. He was promoted to lieutenant and given command of Gibraltar Prize, and then further promoted to commander on 14 June 1757, replacing the previous commander, Lieutenant Schomberg.[4][5][6]

By January 1758, the command had changed again: this time, to Lieutenant Robert Kerr, previously of Шаблон:HMS.[7]

Fate

Gibraltar Prize was decommissioned and sold on 22 January 1761 at Sheerness for £135.[1]

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