HMS Alceste was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as Minerve, an Armide-class frigate. In the spring of 1806, prior to her capture, she engaged...
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of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alceste, after Alcestis, a character in Greek mythology: HMS Alceste (1793) was a 32-gun fifth rate captured...
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French in 1793 and sold in 1802 HMS Alceste (1806), a 38-gun fifth rate captured in 1806 and wrecked in 1817 Alceste De Ambris, Italian socialist This...
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HMS Julia was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class launched in February 1806. After a fairly uneventful decade-long career she...
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Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7. Media related to HMS Belle Poule (ship, 1806) at Wikimedia Commons Phillips, Michael - Ships of the Old Navy...
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HMS Cyane was a Royal Navy Banterer-class sixth-rate post ship of nominally 22 guns, built in 1806 at Topsham, near Exeter, England. She was ordered in...
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HMS Herald was an 18-gun ship-sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Littlehampton. In 1810 she was reclassed as a 20-gun...
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HMS Dictator was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in...
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HMS Gorgon was a 44-gun fifth-rate two-decker ship of the Adventure class of 911 tons, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1785 and completed as a troopship...
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Murray Maxwell (section HMS Daedalus)
Jamaica convoy near Tortola on 4 July 1806. In 1807, Maxwell was transferred to the Mediterranean in HMS Alceste. He was initially part of a raiding squadron...
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