History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | Countess of Scarborough |
Owner | Hammond[1] |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Builder | Whitby |
Launched | 1777[1] |
Captured | 1779 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 500[1] (bm) |
Armament | 22 guns |
Countess of Scarborough was launched at Whitby in 1777. The Royal Navy hired her as a hired armed ship in 1777. She participated in the capture of two privateers before she and HMS Serapis succumbed to a small American flotilla off Flamborough Head in 1779. She briefly became a French privateer. Her subsequent fate is unknown.