page_title: HMS Alfred (1778)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Alfred (1778) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Hood's anchored fleet repels De Grasse at the Battle of Frigate Bay off St Kitts January 26, 1782
context_page_description: HMS Alfred was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1778 at Chatham Dockyard.
context_section_description: She fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780.
  She was at the Battle of Saint Kitts, also known as the Battle of Frigate Bay, that took place on 25 and 26 January 1782 during the American Revolutionary War between a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger French fleet under the Comte de Grasse. In the Battle of the Saintes on 9 April 1782 she led Hood's van squadron at the head of the fleet, impudently crossing in front of the French fleet in a taunting fashion.
  Lloyd's List reported on 17 May 1795 that Alfred had captured a French 22-gun corvette off Cape Finisterre. The corvette had been sailing to the West Indies and Alfred took her into Barbados.
caption: Alfred (middle left) at the Battle of Frigate Bay 26 January 1782
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