• 1804. Alexandria was a tender that served between 1802 and 1803. Alexandria (1806) was a fifth-rate frigate launched in 1806 and broken up 1818. HMS Alexandria...
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    1814, broken up 1816 HMS Jason 1804 – broken up 1815 HMS Hebe 1804 – sold 1813 HMS Minerva 1805 – broken up 1816 HMS Alexandria 1806 – hulked as receiving...
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  • Navy have borne the name HMS Nile, after the Battle of the Nile in 1798: HMS Nile (1806) was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1806. This may have been the...
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  • the name HMS Superb, or HMS Superbe: HMS Superb (1710) was a 64-gun third rate, previously the French ship Superbe. She was captured by HMS Kent in 1710...
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  • HMS Asia Rowing galley "Prince of Wales" (1801) built at Sheerness HMS Antelope (1802) 50-gun, crew of 350 built at Sheerness HMS Alexandria (1806) 32-gun...
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    Alexander Cochrane (category UK MPs 1802–1806)
    captained HMS Ajax in Alexandria, Egypt, during the Egyptian operation of 1801. Cochrane was knighted into the Order of the Bath for his services in 1806. In...
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    HMS Crocodile was a 22-gun sixth-rate post-ship launched in South Shields in 1806. She was broken up at Portsmouth in October 1816. In July 1806 Captain...
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    Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1801, in which the British captured her at Alexandria. She famously carried the Rosetta Stone to Woolwich, and then the Admiralty...
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    Battle of Alexandria and the subsequent siege, Cochrane in Ajax, with the sixth rate HMS Bonne Citoyenne, sloop HMS Cynthia, the brig-sloops HMS Port Mahon...
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    HMS Delight was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class launched in June 1806, six months late. She grounded off Reggio Calabria in...
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    HMS Sappho was a Cruizer class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich and launched in 1806. She defeated the Danish brig Admiral Yawl in a single-ship...
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  • volunteer in HMS San Josef and was made midshipman August of the same Year; was employed in the blockade of Brest up to January, 1806 when he joined HMS Indefatigable;...
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    HMS Canopus was an 84-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the Tonnant-class Franklin...
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    HMS Emulous was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built by William Row at Newcastle and launched in 1806. She survived an inconclusive but...
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    Martin. She covered the rear of the French line, exchanging fire with HMS Bedford and HMS Egmont, but lost contact with her fleet during the night and was...
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    authorities. Sir John Thomas Duckworth appeared on 22 March, off Alexandria in his flagship HMS Royal George, with a part of his squadron, further bolstering...
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    HMS Northumberland was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the yards of Barnard, Deptford and launched on 2 February 1798...
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  • the location of present-day Fort Madison, Iowa. USS Nautilus versus HMS Shannon (1806) (July 17, 1812): The first capture of an American ship by the British...
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    included HMS Andromeda, HMS Unite, HMS Coromandel, HMS Proselyte, HMS Amphitrite, HMS Hornet, the brig HMS Drake, hired armed brig Fanny, schooner HMS Eclair...
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    Gibraltar. In 1825–26 HMS Cambrian was the lead vessel of a small squadron engaged in anti-piracy operations in the Archipelago, at Alexandria, and around the...
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    Admiral Stopford's flagship HMS Spencer, subsequently taking command of the frigates HMS Alexandria, HMS Inconstant and HMS Crescent, seeing action on...
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    Robert Cathcart and Alexandria sailed for the Leith Station. On 19 July 1813, during the War of 1812, Alexandria and the sloop HMS Spitfire discovered...
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    HMS Goliath was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy. She was built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 19 October 1781...
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    captured the French naval brig Rolla on 21 February 1806 in Table Bay. On 4 March, Narcissus and HMS Raisonnable chased the French Navy frigate, Volontaire...
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    June 1806. By this time, another HMS Swiftsure had already entered service, and had been present at Trafalgar. The captured Swiftsure was renamed HMS Irresistible...
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    HMS Procris was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807. She served at the second battle of Copenhagen. She then went out to the East Indies where...
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    HMS Windsor Castle was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 May 1790 at Deptford Dockyard. Windsor Castle was part of...
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    aboard the sloop HMS Fly. In 1771 he moved to the larger HMS Southampton and under her captain John MacBride he subsequently moved to first HMS Orpheus and...
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    commanding officer of the sloop HMS Nimrod in September 1805 and commanding officer of the fifth-rate HMS Jason in January 1806. In HMS Jason, having been promoted...
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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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