HMS Horatio was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate Lively-class frigate, built out of fir timbers at the yard of George Parsons in Bursledon. It was launched...
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named HMS or HMT Horatio: HMS Horatio (1807) was a 38-gun fifth-rate Lively-class frigate launched in 1807 and eventually broken up in 1861. HMT Horatio (T153)...
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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte KB (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer...
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screen adaptation. In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower is given command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia and tasked with...
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1804 HMS Resistance 1805 HMS Apollo 1805 HMS Hussar 1807 HMS Statira 1807 HMS Horatio 1807 HMS Spartan 1806 HMS Undaunted 1807 HMS Menelaus 1810 HMS Nisus...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Lord Nelson, after the Vice-admiral Horatio Nelson, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar: HMS Lord Nelson (1800) was a storeship...
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sailing north, whilst Horatio Nelson was to oversee the evacuation of Elba. Once the evacuation had been accomplished, Nelson, in HMS Minerve, sailed for...
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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (redirect from Horatio Herbert Kitchener)
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (/ˈkɪtʃɪnər/; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator...
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Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson's flag. On 27 November 1793, the ships of a squadron under the command of Captain Thomas Pasley of HMS Bellerophon captured...
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Africa. On 30 October HMS Narcissus recaptured "Horatio Nelson" and the French privateer Prudent, which had captured "Horatio Nelson". The action took...
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latter under Captain William Lechmere, joined with Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson in HMS Victory and sailed from Plymouth for Cadiz on 18 September. Captains...
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already being an HMS Renard (a sloop), on the West Indies station, at some point between 1804 and 1807 the schooner's name was changed to HMS Crafty. During...
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Battle of Trafalgar (category Horatio Nelson)
powder monkey on board HMS Royal Sovereign at Trafalgar. In the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis (1967) in the Horatio Hornblower series by C...
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of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to...
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was soon in action, capturing HMS Minerva in the West Indies. She survived almost until near the end of the war when HMS Magnificent captured her in 1783...
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Gunboat War (category Conflicts in 1807)
Norwegian trade with Russia. On 12 August 1807, even before the war had been declared, the British sixth-rate HMS Comus took part in a one-sided single-ship...
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capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806, and then in 1807 was in command at capture of the island of Curaçao. He was made governor...
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Navy Yard, was commissioned sometime in 1807, Master Commandant John Smith in command. In 1812 she captured HMS Frolic, but was immediately herself captured...
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The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805 (category Cultural depictions of Horatio Nelson)
is an 1807 painting by Arthur William Devis portraying the death of Horatio Nelson at 16:30 on 21 October 1805, below decks on his flagship HMS Victory...
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Battle of Copenhagen (1801) (category Horatio Nelson)
of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, was a naval battle in which a British fleet fought and defeated a smaller...
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Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer) (category UK MPs 1806–1807)
post-captain on 16 May 1793 in the small frigate HMS Tartar. In this ship he first came to the notice of Horatio Nelson, when they both served at the Siege...
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1805 Launched: 7 July 1807 Completed: 26 August 1807 at Portsmouth Dockyard. Fate: Wrecked off Cuba on 26 February 1815. HMS Horatio Builder: George Parsons...
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Antwerp from April 1810. On 8 December 1813 HMS Horatio, under the command of Captain Lord George Stuart, and HMS Amphion captured the island of Schowen during...
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HMS Leander was a Portland-class 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She served on the West Coast of Africa, West...
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Jean Lafitte's pirate brig, the Pride from 1815 to 1816. HMS Badger, the future Admiral Horatio Nelson's first command as a young lieutenant. Wharton, one...
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the North Pole in the 1770s. The uncompleted expedition included a young Horatio Nelson. Bomb vessels Discovery, Explosion, Hecla, Sulphur, Terror (1784)...
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Ministry was formed in April 1807. In May 1807 Gambier volunteered to command the naval forces, with his flag in the second-rate HMS Prince of Wales, sent as...
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after less than a year in service by the British fleet under Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Having served the French for...
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g. the 56-gun Delft). However, HMS Leander, 50 guns, was with Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. As late as 1807, fourth-rates were active in combat...
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to North America in May 1781, accompanied by Captain Horatio Nelson in the 28-gun Sixth rate HMS Albemarle. Pringle went on to serve in the English Channel...
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