HMS Triton (1796)
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HMS Triton (1796)
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HMS Triton was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy designed by James Gambier and launched in 1796 at Deptford. Triton was an experimental ship and the only one built to that design; she was constructed out of fir due to wartime supply shortages of more traditional materials and had some unusual features such as no tumblehome. Her namesake was the Greek god Triton, a god of the sea. She was commissioned in June 1796 under Captain John Gore, with whom she would spend the majority of her
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Experimental frigate of the Royal Navy in service 1796–1814/20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Triton_(1796)
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2024-04-21T16:53:37Z
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