of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Active or HMS Actif, with a thirteenth currently under construction: HMS Active (1758) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched...

HMS Active was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate launched on 14 December 1799 at Chatham Dockyard. Sir John Henslow designed her as an improvement on the...

Unité was launched on 16 January 1794. Surprise gained fame in 1799 for the recapture of HMS Hermione. In 1802 Surprise was sold out of the service. Historical...

HMS Porpoise was a 12-gun sloop-of-war originally built in Bilbao, Spain, as the packet ship Infanta Amelia. On 6 August 1799 HMS Argo captured her off...

18-pounder guns. Amazon was commissioned in May 1799 by Captain Edward Riou. On 14 February 1800 HMS Endymion and Amazon recaptured the merchant ship...

following ships of the United States Navy: USS Adams (1799), was a 28-gun frigate launched in 1799 and active in the War of 1812 and scuttled to prevent capture...

been named HMS Impregnable: HMS Impregnable (1786) was a 98-gun second rate. This ship of the line was launched in 1786 and wrecked in 1799. HMS Impregnable (1810)...

February 28 – French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS Sybille defeats the French frigate Forte off the mouth of...

HMS Orestes was an 18-gun Dutch-built brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally built as the privateer Mars, which the British captured in 1781...

HMS Amethyst was a Royal Navy 36-gun Penelope-class fifth-rate frigate, launched in 1799 at Deptford. Amethyst served in the French Revolutionary Wars...

Active was built in Bristol in 1799. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved persons, and then two voyages trading between...

HMS Minorca. In 1779, Seymour was promoted once more, making post captain in HMS Porcupine and serving in command of HMS Diana, HMS Ambuscade and HMS...

27 September 1797, who renamed her Santa Cecilia. On 25 October 1799, boats from HMS Surprise under Captain Edward Hamilton, cut her out of Puerto Cabello...

rates 1799, designed by William Rule HMS Amazon 1799 – broken up 1817 HMS Hussar 1799 – wrecked in the Bay of Biscay in February 1804 HMS Active 38-gun...

recaptured two days later by HMS Invincible. She was sold in 1816. HMS Argo (1833) was a 38-gun fifth rate, launched in 1799 as HMS Active. She was converted to...

HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period (the other was HMS Caesar). Foudroyant...

was launched in 1799 and the British captured her that same year when they captured Suriname. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Surinam, as there...

designed by Forfait. The British captured her and recommissioned her as HMS Guerriere. She is most famous for her fight against USS Constitution. Her...

leg. Unable to continue serving actively, he was rewarded for his service with a baronetcy and became an admiral in 1799. In the same year he also inherited...

then retired from active service in 1763 at the end of the War. Knighted in 1772, Parker was given command of the second-rate HMS Barfleur when he rejoined...

Portlock was promoted to commander and later commanded the sloop HMS Arrow. In 1799 he was promoted to captain, and served as a Sea Fencibles commander...

Heureuse-class frigate of the French Navy. She was built at Nantes and launched in 1799. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1801. In 1809 she participated in...

remained (on paper at least) until September 1799 when he joined the 64-gun third-rate HMS Asia. He served on HMS Asia until September 1800, when he was promoted...

February 1799. Bligh however incurred the wrath of Parker when, following a major mutiny, he granted pardons to two members of the crew of HMS Hermione...

before being broken up in 1814: Minerve, 1794–1795 HMS Minerve, 1795–1803 Canonnière, 1803–1810 HMS Confiance, 1810–1814 Her keel was laid in January 1792...

Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799 for the United States Navy. Her first commander thought that she was too...

1798, March 1 – HMS Sybille captures French frigate Forte. 1799, February 25 – French privateer Democrat captures merchantman Cicero 1799, March 18 – HM...

isolated, and chased by the frigate HMS Thames and the ships of the line HMS Venerable (74 guns), HMS Caesar (80 guns) and HMS Superb (74 guns). Facing forces...

decision to recondition Victory came after the 98-gun HMS Impregnable was wrecked on 8 October 1799. While returning from escort duty to Lisbon, Impregnable...

service ended aboard HMS Bellerophon, a ship of the line. Matthew Quintal (baptised 3 March 1766 as Mathew Quintril, Padstow, Cornwall – 1799, Pitcairn Island)...