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USS Bonhomme Richard (1765) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The first USS Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Durae, was a East Indiaman, a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, for service between France and the Orient. |
 | | She was placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones on February 4, 1779, by King Louis the Beloved as a result of a gift to the United States by French shipping magnate, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray. |
 | | On June 19, 1779, Bonhomme Richard sailed from L'Orient accompanied by Alliance, Pallas, Vengeance, and Cerf with troop transports and merchant vessels under convoy to Bordeaux and to cruise against the British in the Bay of Biscay. |
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