HMS Carysfort (1766)

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The stamp shows a cropped image of the Coventry-class frigate HMS “Carysfort” from the work of the artist Thomas Whitcombe (1763-1824) “Capture of Castor on May 29, 1794”.
The inscription: "Coventry" 1757 is a mistake.
HMS Carysfort (1766) is a 28-gun 6th rate frigate of the Royal Navy . Launched 1766 at Sheerness . First ship named Carysfort .
Unlike the previous 17 Coventry- class frigates built by private contractors, including some in pine, Carysfort was built in Sheerness in oak.
In 1767 - entered service in June, captain George Vandeput
This frigate served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned over forty years.
She had a number of notable commanders during this period, and saw action in several single-ship engagements against French and American opponents. She took several privateers during the American War of Independence, though one of her most notable actions was the recapture of HMS Castor, a Royal Navy frigate that a French squadron had captured nearly three weeks earlier and was being sailed to France by a French prize crew. Carysfort engaged and forced the surrender of her larger opponent and Castor was restored to the British, though not without a controversy over the issue of prize money. She spent the later French Revolutionary and early Napoleonic Wars on the overseas stations, in the East and later the West Indies. Carysfort returned to Britain in 1806 where she was laid up in Ordinary. The Admiralty finally sold her in 1813.
Grenada 2019; 5$.
Source: https://ship.spottingworld.com/HMS_Carysfort_(1766).