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    HMS Acasta was a 40-gun Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate. She saw service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as the War of 1812. Although...
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  • name HMS Acasta, whilst another two were planned: HMS Acasta (1797) was a 40-gun fifth rate frigate launched in 1797 and broken up in 1821. HMS Acasta was...
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    of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7. Media related to HMS Neptune (1797) at Wikimedia Commons...
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  • sold in 1911. HMS Hardy (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold for scrap in 1921. HMS Hardy (H87) was an H-class destroyer launched...
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  • have borne the name HMS Contest: HMS Contest (1797) or Gunboat No. 16 was a 14-gun vessel launched in 1797 and broken up in 1799. HMS Contest (1799 gun-brig)...
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    cabin (historical) Since she was first launched in 1797, there have been 77 commanders of Constitution. HMS Victory is the oldest commissioned vessel by three...
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  • in 1803. HMS Asp (1808) was the French Navy's corvette Serpent, under the command of Lieutenant de vaisseau Paul de Lamanon, when HMS Acasta captured...
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    force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in Acasta, invaded and captured the islands. Pompee was among the naval vessels that...
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  • in 1797. HMS Fortune (1798) was an 18-gun sloop captured from the French in 1798 and recaptured by them in 1799. HMS Fortune (1913) was an Acasta-class...
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  • soloist in 1802). In 1805 Kellner was a midshipman on HMS Plover, and afterwards on HMS Acasta (1797); but when this ship was ordered to a West Indian station...
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  • put her under the orders of Captain Richard Lane of the 44-gun frigate HMS Acasta. While cruising off Léogâne to intercept supplies destined for the French...
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    driven into New London, Connecticut, by the 74-gun ship HMS Valiant and the 40-gun frigate HMS Acasta, and United States and Macedonian were kept blockaded...
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    Hoche in December 1797. The British Royal Navy captured her at the Battle of Tory Island on 12 October 1798 and recommissioned her as HMS Donegal. Hoche...
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    taking part in the Battle of San Domingo. Duckworth sent Magicienne and Acasta to reconnoitre, and it was they that signaled that the French were at anchor...
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    up in 1814 HMS Naiad 38-gun fifth rate 1797, designed by William Rule – hulked as a coal depot at Callao, Peru in 1847, sold 1866 HMS Acasta 40-gun fifth...
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    William Rule's Acasta, but was instead built to a Jean-Louis Barrallier design with an increased hull length. Ordered on 15 February 1797, her keel, of...
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    returned to sea, having been appointed to command the 40-gun frigate HMS Acasta. He sailed her to the West Indies, remaining there until after the capture...
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  • Thumbnail for William Bowles (Royal Navy officer)
    1800. After that, he moved to the fifth-rate HMS Acasta in the Mediterranean Fleet and then to the sloop HMS Driver. Promoted to lieutenant on 30 August...
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    brig-sloop (1795) eight 18-gun brigs HMS Dragon (1795) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Acasta (1795) 40-gun frigate HMS Naiad (1795) 38-gun frigate Amphion-class...
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    the loss of their ship. In April 1802 he was appointed to the 40-gun HMS Acasta, which, on the renewal of the war in 1803, was attached to the fleet off...
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  • 22 June 1796, he appointed to command of the 16-gun sloop Pylades. In May 1797 he was sent by the Port Admiral at Sheerness to negotiate with the mutineers...
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    and one of four ordered from Yarrow. The design followed the preceding Acasta-class but with improved seakeeping properties and armament, including twice...
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    to the fifth-rate HMS Acasta early in 1800. He joined the fifth-rate HMS Endymion in 1802 and then transferred to the first-rate HMS Victory, flagship...
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    Amsterdam. HMS Unicorn captured her on the Irish station in 1795. The British Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Comeet; it renamed her HMS Penguin...
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    Point, consisted of the ships of the line HMS Ramillies and HMS Valiant along with the frigates HMS Acasta and HMS Orpheus. Realizing his only chance for...
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  • acting lieutenant in the newly commissioned frigate HMS Acasta, serving in the North Sea, in April 1797. On 22 January 1798 he was confirmed in his rank...
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  • HMS Netley was launched in 1798 with an experimental design. During the French Revolutionary Wars she spent some years on the Oporto station, where she...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Latona (1781)
    HMS Latona was a 36-gun, fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the...
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    HMS Hazard was a 16-gun Royal Navy Cormorant-class ship-sloop built by Josiah & Thomas Brindley at Frindsbury, Kent, and launched in 1794. She served...
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