on the protection of trade travelling to and from the continent. She returned home at the beginning of 1778 via Jamaica and was refitted at Portsmouth between January and May, at the same time as which Captain Richard King took over from Cotton. King sailed Pallas to Newfoundland on 25 May, from where she joined the expedition that attacked and razed Saint Pierre and Miquelon on 14 September. In the next month King was replaced by Captain Thomas Spry who sailed the ship back to England where she was re-coppered at Plymouth Dockyard between March and May 1779. After leaving the dockyard Pallas initially served in the English Channel to assist in defending the Channel Islands, which role culminated in the action of 13 May 1779 where a French invasion force intended for Jersey was driven ashore by a large force of British ships including Pallas, commanded by Sir James Wallace. In June the frigate left the Channel to sail for Jamaica where she captured the small Spanish frigate Diana on 11 November 1780. Captain Christopher Parker assumed command of Pallas in 1782 and sailed her home, from where she travelled to Halifax to serve as a convoy escort. Fate Pallas soon returned from North America to serve in home waters, but while at sea off the Azores in February 1783 it was found that the ship was leaking badly and she was beached on São Jorge Island on 12 February. She was burnt there twelve days later. References Bibliography Gardiner, Robert (1992). The First Frigates. London: Conway Maritime Press. . Lyon, David (1993). The Sailing Navy List. London: Conway Maritime Press. . External links 1757 ships Ships built in Deptford Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy Maritime incidents in 1783