HMS Orestes (1781)
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HMS Orestes was an 18-gun Dutch-built brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally built as the privateer Mars, which the British captured in 1781. She went on to serve during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and the French Revolutionary Wars.
Orestes | |
History | |
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Batavian Republic | |
Name | Mars |
Launched | 1781 |
Fate | Captured 3 December 1781 |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Orestes |
Launched | 1781 |
Acquired | 3 December 1781 |
Fate | Disappeared November 1799 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 18-gun brig-sloop |
Tons burthen | 396 40⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 30 ft 4 in (9.2 m) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 1 in (3.68 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | brig-sloop |
Complement | 125 |
Armament |
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The privateer was one of two captured in the North Sea in November 1781, both of which were taken into the Navy. Orestes became an effective anti-privateer vessel, taking several enemy vessels while serving off the British coast. She divided her time between a number of the Royal Navy's stations, serving in the West Indies and departing for the East Indies after time spent on the French coast. Her career in the Indian Ocean was short-lived, as she disappeared at sea in 1799, and is presumed to have foundered in a hurricane with the loss of her entire crew.