Early Service
Her first service was in the Channel during the 1779 threatened invasion by the combined fleets of France and Spain. She was deployed in North American waters during the American Revolutionary War and saw service as a convoy escort between England and Quebec. Later, as a lone cruiser off the North American coast, she captured several rebel privateers. She was put in ordinary (mothballed) in 1783 at Chatham for seven years.
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