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HMS Rippon (1758)
HMS ''Rippon'' was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 20 January 1758.〔
==Career==
While patrolling off Brest on 10 March 1761 under Captain Edward Jekyll, ''Rippon'' chased and engaged the French ship of the line ''Achille'', suffering heavy losses when a gun exploded during the action. This allowed ''Achille'' to pull away and the French ship subsequently escaped.
Early on the morning of 10 August 1778, Admiral Edward Vernon's squadron, consisting of ''Rippon'' (Vernon's flagship), , , , and the East India Company's ship ''Valentine'', encountered a French squadron under Admiral François l'Ollivier de Tronjoly which consisted of the 64-gun ship of the line ''Brillant'', the frigate ''Pourvoyeuse'' and three smaller ships, ''Sartine'', ''Lawriston'', and ''Brisson''. An inconclusive action followed for about two hours in mid-afternoon. The French broke off the action and the British vessels were too damaged to be able to catch them up again. In the action the British suffered 11 men killed and 53 wounded, including four men killed and 15 wounded aboard ''Rippon''.〔Anon. (1801), Section: Pon.〕
''Seahorse'' captured ''Sartine'' on 25 August 1778. ''Sartine'' had been patrolling off Pondichery with ''Pourvoyeuse'' when they sighted two East Indiamen, which were sailing blithely along, unaware of the outbreak of war. The French vessels gave chase lazily. ''Sartine''s captain, Count du Chaillar, first had to be roused from his bed ashore. The British merchant vessels escaped, but ''Sartine'' came too close to Vernon's squadron. He sent ''Coventry'' and ''Seahorse'' after her and she surrendered after a short action. A French account remarks acidly that she surrendered to a frigate of her own size without a fight.〔Barras (1895), Vol. 1, pp.371-2.〕 All four Royal Navy vessels in Vernon's squadron shared in the prize money. (Vernon had already sent ''Valentine'' off with dispatches.) The Royal Navy took ''Sartine'' into service as the fifth-rate frigate .
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