HMS Fox (1799)
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HMS Fox (1799)
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HMS Fox was a schooner that the Royal Navy purchased in 1799; she may have been a French prize. Lieutenant James Woolridge commissioned her in Jamaica. Fox left Jamaica on 5 September 1799 to land General Bowles, the chief of the Creek Indians, on the Gulf of Mexico. Fox touched at the Isle of Providence on her way but was unable to get a pilot. On the 28th., while the master was taking soundings, she struck a reef off Dog Island, Apalachee Bay, Florida about 9 miles from the shore. The reef pie
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