• 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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    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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    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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    Griffin HMS Princess Mary (60 guns) HMS Medway (60 guns) HMS Exeter (60 guns) HMS York (60 guns) HMS Winchester (50 guns) HMS Harwich (50 guns) HMS Preston...
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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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    in Sirius until 1802, and subsequently commanded the ship of the line HMS Achille, participating at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Pakenham, p. 27 James...
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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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  • brig into service as HMS Corso. Commander Bartholomew James commissioned Corso in the Mediterranean in December 1796. On 6 August 1798 Corso and Espoir captured...
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