HMS Argus was launched in 1798 at Bordeaux as Argus. She became a privateer that the British Royal Navy (RN) captured in 1799. She served from April 1803...
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named Argus, after Argus, the hundred-eyed giant of mythology: HMS Argus (1799) was a 10-gun sloop, originally a French privateer, captured in 1799 and...
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the Spanish renamed her Santa Cecilia. On 25 October 1799, Captain Edward Hamilton, aboard HMS Surprise, cut her out of Puerto Cabello harbour. She was...
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Argus was a 16-gun brig of the French Navy, launched in 1800 and broken up at Cayenne in 1807. Argus was a Vigilant-class brig, designated No. 3 in 1799...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
1798, March 1 – HMS Sybille captures French frigate Forte. 1799, February 25 – French privateer Democrat captures merchantman Cicero 1799, March 18 – HM...
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Point, consisted of the ships of the line HMS Ramillies and HMS Valiant along with the frigates HMS Acasta and HMS Orpheus. Realizing his only chance for...
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Matthew Flinders (section HMS Bellerophon)
EXPLORATION MATTHEW FLINDERS IN PORT PHILLIP". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 April 1948. p. 18 Supplement: The Argus Week–End Magazine. Archived from the original...
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Swedes), renamed HMS Jarislawiz, re-captured by Russia at the Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790), renamed Yaroslavets ("Ярославец") BU 1799 Riga 16 ("Рига",...
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Cutting out of the Hermione (category Conflicts in 1799)
that took place at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela on 25 October 1799. The formerly British frigate HMS Hermione, which had been handed over to the Spanish by its...
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French frigate Sibylle (1791) (redirect from HMS Sybille (1794))
Home station, Sibylle captured the French privateer lugger Grand Argus. Grand Argus was pierced for 12 guns but carried only four. She and her crew of...
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