In March 1758 the newly commissioned Shrewsbury, captained by Hugh Palliser joined forces with the smaller warships HMS Unicorn and HMS Lizard off Brest where the French frigate Calypso was destroyed in Audierne Bay on 12 September.
1759
From February 1759 Shrewsbury was in the North American theatre, and was at the campaign against the French in Quebec which came to a conclusion on 13 September that year.
1760 and 1761
From the summer of 1760 Shrewsbury served in the Mediterranean Sea, forcing the French squadron from Toulon to seek protection in the Crete harbour of Candia.[2] In 1761, whilst enforcing the blockade of French ports in the Mediterranean during the Seven Years' War, Shrewsbury, stopped, searched and detained the Danish ship Den Flyvende Engel which was at that time part of a convoy escorted by HDMS Grønland.[3][Note 1]
1762
On 18 September 1762 HMS Shrewsbury, together with her squadron of Superb, Bedford and Minerva, arrived off St John's, Newfoundland just a few hours after the town had capitulated to Lord Colville's forces,[4] the French naval squadron under Charles Ternay having escaped the British blockade in fog on 15 September.
^In the same reference (at page 30-31) Andersen analyses the cynical use of a neutral Royal Danish Navy ship to escort private French cargoes masquerading as Danish to break the British blockade of French ports. The captain of HMS Shrewsbury saw through the scam, and negotiated the capture of Den Flyvende Engel without a shot being fired.
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