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• The first HMS St Albans was in 1687, a fifty gun ship of the line she fought at Barfleur in 1691 before being wrecked in a gale in Kinsale harbour.
• The second St Albans was commissioned in 1706, another fifty gun warship she served in the war against Spain from 1739, mainly in the West Indies. She was wrecked in Kingston during a gale in 1744.
• The third St Albans was commissioned in 1747, another fourth rate ship of the line she had sixty guns, she served against the French from 1756 and participated in the Battle of Lagos (1759) before being sold off.
• The fourth St Albans served in the American War of Independence from 1777Events The Cornish language died out 2nd edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica published January 3 American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. January 12 Mission Santa Clara de Asis is founded in and was part of the fleet that captured St Lucia and won victories at St Kitts and The Saintes12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris by Thomas Whitcombe, painted 1783, shows Samuel Hood's Barfleur center, attacking the French flagship Ville de Paris right. The Battle of the Saintes was a victory of a British fleet under Admiral Sir George.
• The fifth St Albans was the 1918 American destroyer USS Thomas , transferred to Britain in late 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases AgreementThe Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, September 2, 1940, transferred 50 obsolete destroyers from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. Background For the United Kingdom, t. Used for escort duties she was transferred to the Russians in July 1944 before being returned in April 1949 when she was scrapped.
• The current St AlbansHMS St. Albans (F83 is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. In early 2004 the ship was deployed on Operation Oracle duties in the Arabian Sea. See HMS St Albans for other ships of the same name. St Albans. is a Type 23The Type 23 frigate is a warship class of the Royal Navy also known as the Duke Class''. Sixteen of this class have been built, with the final vessel, HMS St Albans (F83) launched in May 2000. The frigate was initially designed as a light anti-submarine w Duke class frigateSailing frigates were 4th, 5th, or 6th-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. In modern military terminology, a frigate is a warship intended to protect other warships and merchant marine ships and as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combatants f, pennant number F83. Launched on May 6, 2000 at Scotstoun she is the sixteenth frigate of her class, she was commissioned in June 2002. In October 2002, she was damaged in a collision with a passenger ferry (the Pride of Portsmouth) during strong winds, in Portsmouth Harbour. She was holed above the waterline and sustained significant damage, while the passenger ferry was relatively unharmed.