HMS Orpheus (1773)
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title:
HMS Orpheus (1773)
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HMS Orpheus was a British Modified Lowestoffe-class fifth-rate frigate, ordered on 25 December 1770, as one of five fifth-rate frigates of 32 guns each contained in the emergency frigate-building programme inaugurated when the likelihood of war with Spain arose over the ownership of the Falkland Islands. Sir Thomas Slade's design for Lowestoffe was approved, but was revised to produce a more rounded midships section; the amended design was approved on 3 January 1771 by Edward Hawke's outgoing Ad
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Frigate of the Royal Navy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Orpheus_(1773)
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2023-10-24T22:10:06Z
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