• HMS Redbridge was the mercantile schooner Union that the Royal Navy purchased in 1804. She wrecked at Nassau, Bahamas in November 1806. She was registered...
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  • as HMS Redbridge. She foundered at Jamaica in February 1805. HMS Redbridge (1804) was the mercantile Union that the Royal Navy purchased in 1804. She...
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    HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only...
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  • HMS Redbridge was the French privateer cutter Oiseau, which had been commissioned at Rochefort in August 1803. HMS Argo captured her in September 1803...
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  • 1805. Lieutenant George Thomas Wingate commissioned Biter in June 1804. On 2 November HMS Adder grounded on Romney Flats, about three miles east of Dungeness...
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    flagship of Vice-Admiral Latouche Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804. Bucentaure was named after the Venetian state barge Bucintoro which was...
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  • HMS Raven was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Perry, Wells and Green at Blackwall Yard and launched in 1804. Although she embodied some interesting...
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  • HMS Berbice was the Batavian Republic's schooner Serpent that HMS Heureux took possession of at Berbice in 1803 at the capitulation of the colony and...
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  • HMS Barracouta was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804...
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    HMS Manly was an Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804. During her career first the Dutch captured her, then the British recaptured her, then the Danes...
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    55 merchant ships from a convoy of 63, escorted by the ship of the line HMS Ramillies and three frigates. In 1782 she was incorporated into the Mediterranean...
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    gun-brig design of 1804. They were armed with ten 18-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder bow chasers. Built by Hobbs & Hellyer, Redbridge, Hampshire, she...
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    Northfleet, Kent to carry cargo for the British East India Company (EIC). In 1804 she was one of the vessels at the Battle of Pulo Aura, though she did not...
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  • Integrity was a cutter built by the Colonial Government of New South Wales in 1804. She was the first vessel ever launched from a New South Wales dockyard and...
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    Knopwood, Robert. "Robert Knopwood – Journals on board H.M.S. Resolution and H.M.S. Calcutta, 1801–1804". Tipping, p. 61. Tipping, p.106. Tipping, p. 106....
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  • Tobago. In December 1804, Scarborough, under Captain James Scott, left the Motherbank in a convoy for the West Indies. She joined with HMS Swift and ten other...
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    Admiralty named their purchase HMS Acheron and had her fitted out as a bomb vessel between 28 October and 2 March 1804, at Woolwich Dockyard. Commander...
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  • armed lugger Venus, which was renamed Agnes in 1804, served the British Royal Navy from 8 March 1804 until she foundered in the Texel in March 1806....
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    volunteer aboard HMS Doris. 1803–1804: served on HMS Pique, 36 1806: Promoted to master's mate aboard HMS Redbridge, 12 1808: Served on board HMS Polyphemus...
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  • of Trafalgar. She was captured during the battle by a boarding party from HMS Defiance. On the following day, her crew rose up against the British prize...
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    in the Brest squadron, served in the Caribbean in 1803, and duelled with HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, killing Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson...
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    Cruizer design were placed from 1802 up to 1813. A final order in 1815 (HMS Samarang) was cancelled in 1820. The Cruizer-class brig-sloops proved to...
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    surrendered to HMS Defence, Deniéport took advantage of a light wind to attempt to fill the gap in the line. She then found herself trapped between HMS Defiance...
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  • HMS Calpe was the former 14-gun polacca San José of the Spanish Navy, originally built in 1796 in Greece. The British captured her in 1800 and commissioned...
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  • inhabitants massacred most of her crew and then scuttled her. On 11 April 1793, HMS Ganges was part of the squadron commanded by Admiral John Gell. The squadron...
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    Vengeance-class frigate of the French Navy. HMS St Fiorenzo captured her in 1797 and the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Fisgard. She was sold in 1814. The...
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    HMS Arrow was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy that the Admiralty purchased in 1796. during the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in many actions...
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    name ship of a two-vessel class of schooners, and she and her class mate Redbridge were the smallest of the six vessels, smaller even than the other two...
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  • Portsmouth on 20 March 1804, bound for Ceylon and China. She was one of a convoy of eight East Indiamen, all under escort by HMS Lapwing. Other East Indiamen...
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    HMS Athenienne was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was the former Maltese ship San Giovanni, which the French captured on...
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