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HMS Vindictive has been the name of several Royal Navy ships
HM galleyVindictive was the six-gun galleyLee of the Georgia Navy that HMSGreenwich and HM galleyComet captured on the Savannah River in April 1779. The Royal Navy took Lee into service as Vindictive and sold her at Jamaica in 1786.
HMSVindictive was the Dutch navy's frigate Bellona launched at Rotterdam in 1786 that the Royal Navy captured at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay in 1796 and broke up in 1816.
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