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HMS Crescent (1784)
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HMS ''Crescent'' was a 36-gun ''Flora''-Class frigate of the British Royal Navy. Launched in 1784, she spent the first years of her service on blockade duty in the English Channel where she single-handedly captured the French frigate, ''La Reunion''. In 1795, ''Crescent'' was part of a squadron commanded by George Elphinstone, that forced the surrender of a Batavian squadron at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay. After serving in the West Indies, ''Crescent'' returned to home waters and was wrecked off the coast of Jutland on 6 December 1808.
==Background==
Britain's early preference for smaller warships was mainly because of a requirement to maintain a large navy and to keep the expense of doing so down. However, by the latter half of the 1770s, Britain was facing a war with France, Spain and the United States of America, and was in need of a more powerful type of frigate.〔Winfield (p.137)〕 In 1778, the Navy Board ordered the first of two new types of frigate, one with 38 guns, the ''Minerva''-class, and the other with 36, the ''Flora''-Class.〔Winfield (pp.136 & 137)〕 Both had a main battery of 18 pounder guns. ''Crescent'' was ordered on 11 August 1781 and was to be of the 36-gun variety.〔
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