[4] Tapageur was commissioned into the Royal Navy in May under the command of Lieutenant Lord Charles FitzGerald.

[5] In late 1779 she was at Portsmouth, attached to Admiral Rodney's fleet, which was preparing to take troops to Gibraltar, Minorca, and the West Indies.

[9][10] Then she accompanied Jason on a reconnaissance towards the Cape of Good Hope and returned to Porto Praya with the news of the presence at Saldanha Bay of five Dutch East Indiamen.

HMS Tapageur was digitally reconstructed and is featured as one of the sailable ships in the video game Ahoy.

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