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HMS Pegasus (1776)

1776 shipsSloops of the Royal NavySwan-class ship-sloopsUse British English from February 2017
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HMS Pegasus was a 14-gun ship sloop of the Swan class, launched on 27 December 1776. She was commissioned the same month under Commander John Hamilton Gore and - after completing on 3 March 1777 - sailed for Newfoundland on 3 April. She was lost with all hands in a storm off Newfoundland in October.

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Little Egg Harbor Township


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New Jersey, United States
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