quarterdeck and forecastle. Career Pallas was commissioned in August 1757 under the command of Captain Archibald Clevland to serve in the English Channel as part of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Hawke's fleet blockading the coast of France. She captured the French privateer Le Hasard on 3 November off Saint Malo. On 7 August 1758 she served as the flag ship of Commodore Richard Howe at the Raid on Cherbourg and also participated in operations at Saint Cas between June and September. Captain Michael Clements assumed command of Pallas in around June 1759, and was still in command when she fought in the Battle of Bishops Court on 28 February 1760 where three French frigates were captured by Pallas and the frigates HMS Aeolus and HMS Brilliant. The frigate sailed to the Mediterranean Sea on 19 June. Soon after she engaged the French ship of the line Diadème and attempted to slow her down so that more powerful British ships could arrive to attack her, but she failed in doing so. She continued in the Mediterranean throughout 1761 and 1762, capturing the French privateer La Revanche on 23 June 1762. On 23 July two Spanish xebecs attacked Pallas in Cadiz Bay; the British ship soon gained the upper hand in the engagement despite the Spaniards being heavily armed, but a Spanish ship of the line sailed from Cadiz and forced her to leave the engagement before she could capture either ship. The frigate was paid off in January 1764. She was surveyed in June of the same year but waited until 1770 to receive a refit, which took place at Portsmouth Dockyard between February and December. She was recommissioned in October under Captain John Laforey to serve in the Falklands Crisis; with the Crisis over Laforey was replaced by Captain George Watson in 1771, who sailed Pallas back to the Mediterranean on 7 May. Captain James Almes replaced Watson in 1773 and the ship was refitted again at Portsmouth in May of that year before being paid off only one month later. She was recommissioned by Captain William Cornwallis in September 1774 and sailed for the coast of Africa on 12 December. She served off Senegal and Gambia supporting their coastal garrisons, and then sailed to Cape Coast Castle from where she investigated a number of new British settlements and castles. Captain Rowland Cotton assumed command in 1777 where after Pallas focused