HMS Liverpool (1758)

The second "Liverpool", built in its namesake city, was launched on 10 February 1758. She was a sixth-rate frigate with a small displacement of 587 tons and armed with 28 guns. She was engaged in blockading Dunkirk, where a French expedition had been assembled for a potential invasion of Ireland or Scotland. Whilst on this duty, "Liverpool" captured a French privateer vessel, bringing her into Margate Roads. "Liverpool" shortly afterwards captured another French privateer, known as the "Grand Admiral". The ship continued in service in the English Channel and North Sea until 1764 when her career came to a brief end and she was paid off in Woolwich, only to be re-commissioned and subsequently ordered to Newfoundland. After two years service there she journeyed to the Mediterranean, remaining there till her eventual return for paying off in Chatham, England in March 1772. On 15 July 1775, "Liverpool" was re-commissioned for the second and final time. She served in the Mediterranean once more, then after a while joined the Fleet in North America under Viscount Howe in 1777, during the American Revolution, but it turned into a fateful deployment for the ship. On 11 February 1778 she was wrecked off Long Island.