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1719 Establishment
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at Woolwich, from where she was relaunched on 27 January 1741.
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with Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke and Rear Admiral Charles Saunders. She arrived there on 3 July with an order to supersede Admiral John Byng. ''Antelope'' returned to England with Byng, sailing on 9 July and arriving at Spithead on 26 July, where Byng was arrested before being landed on 19 August. His trial started on board ''St George'' on 27 December.
On 30 April 1757, Captain Samuel Hood took command of ''Antelope''. On 15 May, after a short action off Brest, France, the French ''
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Not every action was a success. In 1759, under the command of Captain
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, ''Antelope'' was attached to Commodore
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In 1762, ''Antelope'' was stationed in Placentia Bay,
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Comte d'Haussonville
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, sailed into St. John's and captured the town on 24 June. Captain Graves immediately sent word to Commodore Lord Colville at Halifax who joined him in blockading the French, and brought troops over from
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on 11 September. During a gale on 16 September de Ternay evaded the blockade and, abandoning the troops, sailed back to France.
On her way home to England ''Antelope'' under Admiral Clark Gayton she encountered ''HMS Marlborough'', under Captain
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, which had sailed from Havana as part of the escort of a convoy of prizes and transports, but had become separated in very heavy weather. She was leaking so badly that her guns had to be thrown overboard and the pumps kept working. ''Antelope'' took all her people off on 29 November when she started to founder and she was allowed to sink.
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Under command of Will Judd she captured Schooners "Betsy", and "Peggy" and sloop "Stordy", probably between 20-25 December, 1776. She captured schooner "Juno", probably between December, 1776 and March, 1777. She captured brig "Papilllon" and brig "Sunberry", probably between mid September and mid October, 1777. She captured brig "Elizabeth", probably in mid December, 1777.
On 6 April 1778, under command of Capt. Charles Holmes Everitt, she and HMS Diligence captured American schooner "John".
Later, in 1780, ''Antelope'' was again patrolling the Labrador coast and intercepted the American ship ''Mercury''. As the vessels came to close quarters, a package was thrown overboard from the latter. One of the sailors on ''Antelope'' dived from the deck and rescued the package, which contained details of secret negotiations then being conducted between the United States and the United Provinces. Antelope Harbour, Labrador, is named for this incident.
''Antelope'' was sold out of the service on 30 October 1783.