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unusual facts about fifth rate



HMS Pallas

The third Pallas was a 38 gun fifth rate launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1780 as HMS Minerva but renamed HMS Pallas when she was converted to a troopship in 1798.

HMS Protector

Protector, a 44 gun fifth rate listed in 1749 which served in India, and was wrecked on 1 January 1776 by a cyclone near Pondicherry.

HMS Seine

# HMS Seine was a fifth rate frigate, originally named Embuscade, captured from the French in 1798, named HMS Ambuscade and added to the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Seine in 1803, and broken up in 1813.


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Fifth-rate

The rating system in the British (originally English) Royal Navy as originally devised had just four rates, but early in the reign of Charles I the original fourth rate (derived from the "Small Ships" category under his father, James I) was divided into new classifications of fourth, fifth, and sixth rates.

HMS Hussar

The seventh Hussar was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched in 1799 and wrecked on 8 February 1804 by grounding on a reef near the Île de Sein.

Louis Guittar

In early 1700, after plundering and sinking five merchant ships in Chesapeake Bay, he was surprised by the fifth-rate frigate HMS Shoreham under Captain William Passenger after chasing the remaining Quaker into Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia on May 3, 1700.