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HMS ''Robust'' was a 74-gun
HMS ''Robust'' was a 74-gun third-rate
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ship of the line
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of the Royal Navy
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, built by John Barnard
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and launched on 25 October 1764 at Harwich
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. She was the first vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name.
Service history
In 1778 she was at the Battle of Ushant in Palliser's division of the fleet. Her captain, Alexander Hood, took Palliser's side in the subsequentcourt martial
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known as "the Keppel affair".
''Robust'' was part of the fleet under Lord Hood that occupied Toulon
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in August 1793. With , , and , she covered the landing, on 27 August, of 1500 troops sent to remove the republicans occupying the forts guarding the port. Once the forts were secure, the remainder of Hood's fleet, accompanied by 17 Spanish ships-of-the-line which had just arrived, sailed into the harbour.James (Vol.I) p. 69
On 12 October 1798 she captured the French ship '' Hoche'' while under the command of Sir John Warren John Warren may refer to:
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at the Battle of Tory Island
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On 21 July 1801, the boats of ''Robust'', , and succeeded in boarding and cutting out the French naval corvette
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''Chevrette'', which was armed with 20 guns and had 350 men on board (crew and troops placed on board in expectation of the attack). Also, ''Chevrette'' was under the batteries of Bay of Cameret. The hired armed cutter
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placed herself in the Goulet and thereby prevented the French from bringing reinforcements by boat to ''Chevrette''.
The action was a sanguinary one. The British lost 11 men killed, 57 wounded, and one missing; ''Chevrette'' lost 92 officers, seamen and troops killed, including her first captain, and 62 seamen and troops wounded. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "21 JULY BOAT SERVICE 1801" to surviving claimants from the action.
Fate
''Robust'' was employed on harbour service from 1812, and was broken up in 1817.Notes
Citations
References
* * Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robust (1764) Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Ramillies-class ships of the line 1764 ships Ships built in Harwich