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Two ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Abundance''''': |
Two ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Abundance''''': |
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*{{HMS|Abundance|1799}} was a |
* {{HMS|Abundance|1799}} was a store-ship launched and purchased in 1799; she was sold in May 1823. |
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* {{HMS|Abundance|1855}} was an iron-hulled screw-driven store-ship purchased in January 1855 as {{HMS|Alfred|1855|6}}, renamed HMS ''Abundance'' in February of that year and sold in 1856. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* {{ship||Abondance|1780 ship}} was a French transport launched in 1780 that the British captured in 1781, took into service as '''HMS ''Abondance''''', and then sold in 1784. |
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*{{HMS|L'Abondance}} was a French storeship built by Jean-Joseph Ginoux, and launched 16 September 1780.<ref>Demerliac (1996), p.102, #702.</ref> Rear-Admiral [[Richard Kempenfelt]]'s squadron captured her off [[Brest, France|Brest]] in 1781. She was under the command of a M. Dupuis, had a burthen of 600 tons (bm), and a crew of 90. She was carrying 248 soldiers and ordnance, stores, and provisions.<ref>Beatson (1804), Vol. 6, p.319.</ref> She was taken into the Royal Navy and carried as a [[sixth rate]] of 28 guns (24 x 9-pounder and 4 x 4-pounder guns). Lieutenant N. Phillips commissioned her in April 1783 and on 23 May sailed for North America.<ref name="NMM-WH-379275">{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_iv.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 379275|work=Warship Histories, vol iv|publisher=[[National Maritime Museum]]|accessdate=30 July 2011}}</ref> She made several trips carrying black loyalists to [[City of Halifax|Halifax]]. In November, she evacuated the last group, some 80 members of a unit of black loyalists, the Black Brigade, from New York.<ref>Finkelman (2006), Vol. 2, pp.139-40.</ref> She was sold in 1784. |
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*Beatson, Robert (1804) ''Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783''. Vol. 6. (Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme). |
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*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3 |
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*Finkelman, Paul (2006) ''Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895:From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass'' (Oxford University Press). ISBN 9780195167771 |
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Latest revision as of 03:22, 15 April 2022
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Abundance:
- HMS Abundance (1799) was a store-ship launched and purchased in 1799; she was sold in May 1823.
- HMS Abundance (1855) was an iron-hulled screw-driven store-ship purchased in January 1855 as HMS Alfred, renamed HMS Abundance in February of that year and sold in 1856.
See also
[edit]- Abondance (1780 ship) was a French transport launched in 1780 that the British captured in 1781, took into service as HMS Abondance, and then sold in 1784.
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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