HMS Orestes (1781)
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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. 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
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Sloop of the Royal Navy (1781-1799)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Orestes_(1781)
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2023-07-25T07:01:54Z
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