As HMS Iris
Hancock, renamed Iris, served the British Navy so effectively that her new owners boasted of her as "the finest and fastest frigate in the world." The most famous of the many prizes which made her officers wealthy men was the capture on 28 August 1781 of the American 28-gun ship Trumbull.
Trumbull carried 32 guns and 200 men. Iris captured her after an engagement of about an hour in which Iris lost one man killed and six wounded, while Trumbull had two men killed and 10 wounded.
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Chesapeake, admirals Graves and Hood left the Chesapeake waters; the French set a solid screen of fast frigates to intercept enemy shipping. Prior to retreating, Hood dispatched two frigates, Iris and Richmond, to general Cornwallis in New York. On 9 September 1781, four French frigates intercepted them; Richmond fell back and surrendered first, then the French frigate Heron, under captain Traversay, captured Iris. Traversay boarded Iris, assumed command and held it till the end of war.
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