JASON HMS 1765

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JASON HMS 1765

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Built as a fifth rate by Robert Batson at Limehouse for the Royal Navy.
01 April 1762 keel laid down.
30 April 1763 named HMS JASON.
13 June 1763 launched under that name.
Tonnage 689 ton (bm), dim. 127.4 x 34.10 x 12.0ft., length on deck 106.10ft.
Armament 32guns.
26 July 1763 completed.
19 September 1765 fitted out completed at Deptford Dry-dock
August 1765 commissioned under command of Capt. John Macbride, also depict on the stamp.

05 October 1765 sailed for Jamaica with orders to proceed thereafter to the Falklands.
January 1766 McBride established a naval garrison on Saunders Island, Falkland, which he named Fort George.
Returned back in the U.K. the same year and decommissioned, was repaired by the Woolwich Dockyard, she docked there on 16 April 1766.
February 1768 recommissioned under command of Captain Charles Antrobus,
24July 1767she sailed for the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean via Madeira, with on board some oak planks used for repairing ship bottoms at Jamaica. She sailed together with HMS MERMAID.
Capt. Antrobus died in the Caribbean on 03 November 1769, and he was relieved by Captain John Botterell.
Under his command the JASON sailed to the Port Egmont Settlement on the Falkland Islands.
November 1771 paid off.
12 September 1777 fitted out in Woolwich for home service, armament reduced to 28 guns, and recommissioned as a 6th Rate under command of Captain James Pigot.
20 April 1779 again a 5th Rate for convoy duty to the Hudson Bay.
1780 In the Western Squadron.
10 December 1780 took the French privateer Le DUC DE MORTEMAINT from St Malouine, and on 24 December 1780 the privateer Le INDUSTRIE.
1781 A unit of Johnstone’s squadron, and the same year in March sailed for the Cape with the squadron to take the Cape from the Dutch.
16 April 1781 at Porto Praya where she took part in the battle of Porto Praya, Cabo Verde, between Johnstone squadron and a French squadron under command of Bailli de Suffren. The British squadron at anchor there for taken on board fresh water, was attacked by the French squadron which arrived there, most French ships not ready for action forcing Suffren to withdraw.
1782 the JASON arrived home again.
13 April 1782 sailed for North America and took on 28 September 1782 the US privateer JOLLY TAR, and together with the HMS RENOWN the privateer SCAMMELL on 08 December 1782.
August 1783 paid off.
10 February 1785 sold at Chatham for £495.

Falkland Islands 1985 7p sg 510.

Source: Ships of the Royal Navy by Colledge. http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhill ... p?ref=5499. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 by Rif Winfield. Some web-sites.

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