At least four ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Port Royal, after the British naval base
Port Royal in
Jamaica:
HMS Port Royal (1757) was an 18-gun
sloop that was purchased locally, i.e., in Jamaica, in 1757. She was paid off and sold in 1763.
HMS Port Royal (1778) was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the French armed merchant vessel
Comte de Maurepas, which the British captured in 1778. They purchased her, armed her with eighteen 6-pounder guns, and gave her the name Port Royal; she was under the command of Commander Timothy Kelly when the Spanish captured her at Pensacola in 1781.
HMS Port Royal (1782) was the 14-gun French privateer ship-sloop Comte d'Estaing, which
HMS Fortune captured on 29 March 1782. She was commissioned under Lieutenant George Hart but
paid off on 31 March 1783 and sold thereafter.[Note 1]
HMS Port Royal (1796) was a 10-gun
schooner purchased in 1796. The French captured her on 30 March 1797 and renamed her Perle.
Pelican recaptured her on 18 October.[2] The Royal Navy renamed her HMS Recovery. She was sold in 1801.
Notes
^A Comte d'Estaing was apparently launched in 1780 but grounded at Glénans that same year. She was either refloated or there may have been a successor vessel of the same name.[1]
Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot.
ISBN0-948864-30-3.
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