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USF Queen of France
Frigate:
Built, date and location unknown
Launched, date unknown
Purchased by American commissioners, Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane in France in 1777
Fitted out as a 28-gun frigate
USF Queen of France, CAPT. Joseph Olney, in command
Departed Boston, 13 March 1779, to cruise the Atlantic coast to seek out and destroy vessels preying on American shipping
Took privateer schooner Hibernia off Cape Henry, 6 April 1779
Captured ships Jason, Meriah brigs Patriot, Prince Ferdinand, John, Batchelor, and schooner Chance, 7 April 1779
Returned Boston, 20 April 1779, with prizes Maria, Hibernia and three brigs
Queen of France, CAPT. John Peck Rathburne, in command, departed Boston, 18 June 1779 with frigate USF Providence and
Continental Navy Sloop Ranger encountering the British Jamaica Fleet (150 ships) near the Banks
of Newfoundland in mid-July, seizing eleven prizes, under cover of dense fog Departed Boston with frigates Providence and Boston and sloop
Ranger, 23 November 1779, cruising east of Bermuda, took Dolphin, 5 December 1779
Final Disposition, sunk at Charleston to avoid falling into British hands when that city surrendered 11 May 1780
Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length unknown
Beam unknown
Depth-of-hold unknown
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament
twenty-eight guns
Propulsion sail
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Queen of France
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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