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HMS Port Royal (1778)
HMS ''Port Royal'' was the former French armed merchant vessel ''Comte de Maurepas'', which the British captured in 1778. The British armed her with 18 guns and took her into the Royal Navy under her new name.〔A number of sources claim, incorrectly, that the hired ship ''Countess of Scarborough'' captured her. Others confuse this ''Comte de Maurepas'' with the ''Compte de Maurepas'' that the ''Countess of Scarborough'' captured in June 1779. Accounts also refer to the ''Comte de Maurepas'' as the ''Comtesse de Maurepas''.〕 The Spanish captured her at the Siege of Pensacola in 1781.
==Capture==
On 13 October 1778, the squadron under Captain Joseph Deane in captured her off Cap-François on 13 October 1778.〔That same day the squadron captured the merchant vessel ''Astrėe'', which the Royal Navy took into service as the sixth-rate frigate , and which Captain Horatio Nelson would briefly command.〕 ''Comte de Maurepas'' was of 500 tons burthen (bm), was armed with eight guns, and had a crew of 32 men under Charles Bailly, master. She had been carrying a cargo of bricks and bale goods from Nantes.
Rear-Admiral Parker ordered her purchase. She was purchased on 8 December at a cost of £4,900.〔The National Archives (TNA) ADM.17/176.〕 The British re-measured her as 463 tons BM, armed her with eighteen 6-pounder guns and a dozen swivel guns, to carry a complement of 125 men; as ''Port Royal'', she was commissioned under Commander Michael John Everitt on 1 January 1779.
By the start of June 1779, Everitt had been succeeded in charge of the ''Port Royal'' by Commander John Cowling, who remained in command until December 1779. Everitt was transferred as commander (acting captain) to HMS ''Ruby'', a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, as a replacement for Captain Joseph Deane, who was unwell (Deane died on 12 January 1780). On 2 June, ''Ruby'' was in company with and the sloop when they encountered the French 36-gun frigate ''Prudente''. The British gave chase, during which a chance shot from ''Prudente''s stern guns killed Everitt and a sailor. The British captured , which they took into service under her existing name.
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