Experiment was a 50-gun ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. Captured by Sagittaire during the War of American Independence, she was recommissioned...

The action of 13 May 1779 was a battle in Cancale Bay, near St Malo, between French and British squadrons of frigates. The French force had been part of...

Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Experiment: HMS Experiment (1664) was a double-hulled sloop built in 1664 and lost in 1687....

Sagittaire was a 50-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Sagittaire was designed by Coulomb, but as he had to leave for a mission to Malta, Chapelle...

The battle ended with the capture of the British post ship Ariel by Amazone. On 11 September 1779, whilst the Ariel was cruising off Charles Town under...

March 1779 Completed: 6 May 1779 at Deptford Dockyard Fate: Taken by American Bonhomme Richard, assisted by other vessels, and transferred to the French who...

trial HMS Champion 1779 – hulked as receiving ship 1809, sold 1816 HMS Myrmidon 22 guns 1781; built to the lines of Amazone a French privateer captured...

British squadron under Captain Sir James Wallace in HMS Experiment attacked the French on 13 May 1779 at Cancale Bay. The British managed to set Valeur (6...

In 1779 she participated in a successful operation that resulted in the capture of a French frigate and several other naval vessels. The French Navy...

pilot boat Europa 50 (1783) – sold 1814 Experiment class (Williams) Experiment 50 (1774) – captured by France 1779 Medusa 50 (1785) – wrecked 1798 Grampus...