Royal Navy and was briefly named HMS Iphigenia before being renamed Imperieuse in 1805. In 1806 command of Imperieuse was given to Lord Cochrane. She was...
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have borne the name HMS Imperieuse: HMS Imperieuse (1793) was a 40-gun fifth-rate captured from the French in 1793. She was renamed HMS Unite in 1803, was...
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1799. She was renamed Imperieuse in 1801 and was broken up in 1805. HMS Amfitrite (1804) was a 38-gun fifth rate captured by HMS Donegal from the Spanish...
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HMS Swallow was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in December 1805, nine months late. She served the Royal Navy through the Napoleonic Wars, capturing...
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HMS Thames was a 32-gun fifth-rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805 at Chatham. A wartime lack of building materials meant that...
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Imperieuse under Captain Lord Cochrane, Calcutta's crew panicked and abandoned ship without orders. A midshipman with a small party from Imperieuse took...
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1801. HMS Iphigenia (1804) was a 38-gun fifth rate, formerly the Spanish ship Medea. She was captured in 1804 and renamed HMS Imperieuse in 1805. She was...
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Naples and had not made any captures. The day before she had escaped from Imperieuse and Unite. Unite was in sight when Furieuse captured Nebrophonus. On 24...
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HMS Imperieuse 1852 HMS Euryalus 1853 HMS Aurora 1861 HMS Forte 1858 HMS Chesapeake 1855 Liffey class 1856 HMS Liffey 1856 HMS Shannon 1855 HMS Topaze...
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captain of HMS Triton in the similar Action of 16 October 1799. Medea was taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Iphigenia (later renamed HMS Imperieuse), Santa...
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