• HMS Achille was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cleverley Bros., a private shipyard at Gravesend, and launched...
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  • up in 1796. HMS Achille (1780) was a storeship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1784. HMS Achille (1798) was 74-gun third rate launched in 1798. She fought...
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    HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the French Revolutionary...
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    columns for the Straits of Gibraltar to the southeast. That same evening, Achille spotted a force of 18 British ships of the line in pursuit. The fleet began...
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    Nile, where she fought HMS Vanguard, HMS Minotaur and HMS Theseus. She was captured and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Aboukir. List of ships...
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    HMS Entreprenante (also Entreprenant) was a 10-gun cutter that the Royal Navy captured from the French in 1798. The British commissioned her in 1799 and...
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    Brunswick also managed to drive Achille off from her far side when the French ship attempted to intervene. Achille, already damaged, was totally dismasted...
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    lee column. She was astern of the 80-gun HMS Tonnant and ahead of the 74-gun HMS Achille, with the 74-gun HMS Colossus close by her port side. At 12:30...
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    ship of the Neptuno, she was ordered in November 1795 and launched in June 1798 in Ferrol, to the design of Julian Martín Retamosa. On 25 August 1800, she...
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    captured by the British in the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 and added to the RN as HMS Guerrier, BU 1810. Protecteur 74 (launched 21 May 1760 at Toulon)...
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