HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781. She served in three wars and made a number of notable...
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the ballad: The Saucy Arethusa. HMS Arethusa (1781) was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1814. HMS Arethusa (1817) was a 46-gun fifth-rate...
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HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard, with the keel being laid down...
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Edward Hunt HMS Minerva 1780 – broken up 1803 HMS Arethusa 1781 – broken up 1814 HMS Phaeton 1782 – Sold 1827 HMS Latona 38-gun fifth rate 1781, designed...
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British navy. Such ships include: HMS Phaeton (1782) HMS Arethusa (1781) HMS Amphion (1798) HMS Alcmene (1794) HMS Argus (I49) The Royal Australian Navy...
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HMS Anson was a ship of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781. Originally a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, she fought at the Battle...
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Audierne after action with HMS Flora and HMS Arethusa. HMS Alert (1795), an 8-gun brig-sloop launched at Bombay in 1795. HMS Alerte, a 14-gun brig-sloop...
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Brisbane was appointed to the frigate HMS Arethusa, which he took to the West Indies. Early in 1806 he ran Arethusa ashore amongst the Colorados rocks,...
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on board the HMS Arethusa (1781). The other British ships were HMS Medusa, HMS Narcissus (1801), HMS Amazon (1799) and the brig-sloop HMS Port Mahon (1798)...
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on board the HMS Arethusa (1781). The other British ships were HMS Medusa, HMS Narcissus (1801), HMS Amazon (1799) and the brig-sloop HMS Port Mahon (1798)...
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frigate HMS Arethusa (1781), was also composed of the frigates HMS Medusa, under Captain Bowles; HMS Narcissus (1801), under Captain Aylmer, HMS Amazon (1799);...
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Curaçao, on 1 January 1807. Sailing into the harbour second, behind HMS Arethusa, she helped the British frigate capture the 36-gun Kenau Hasselar before...
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French frigate Belle Poule (1766) (redirect from HMS Belle Poule (1780))
Léon-Michel Guignace. She is most famous for her duel with the British frigate HMS Arethusa on 17 June 1778, which began the French involvement in the American War...
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Dockyard. HMS Arethusa Builder: James Martin Hilhouse, Bristol Ordered: 26 January 1779 Laid down: 23 August 1779 Launched: 10 April 1781 Fate: Broken...
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36-gun HMS Flora, the 38-gun HMS Arethusa under Captain Sir Edward Pellew, and the 36-gun frigates HMS Melampus, under Captain Thomas Wells, and HMS Nymphe...
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British ships HMS Arethusa (1781) (frigate) – Captain Mends HMS Medusa (frigate) HMS Narcissus (1801) (frigate) HMS Amazon (1799) (frigate) HMS Port Mahon (1798)...
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06778 (HMS Arethusa (1759)). In 1781, she was under Traversay, part of the squadron under Grasse. She took part in the action of 4 January 1781. Aigrette...
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eighteen in 1765. In 1770 Graves was lieutenant of HMS Arethusa, and in 1773 was appointed to HMS Racehorse with Captain Constantine Phipps for the voyage...
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midshipman under Dent's command. In June 1775 he moved to HMS Arethusa mainly based in Portsmouth. Arethusa's task was protecting the harbour against feared attach...
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fencibles and in 1808 given command of the frigate HMS Arethusa in the Bay of Biscay. With Arethusa, Mends served on the blockade of the Northern Spanish...
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joined the 14th regiment, serving as a Marine on HMS Union at the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1781. He subsequently served in the West Indies on the...
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Kew Gardens (section Temple of Arethusa)
of Aeolus and Bellona, she was later named to commemorate the warship HMS Arethusa. A whitewashed stucco temple. The facade has a portico of two pairs of...
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of 17 June 1778 between Belle Poule and HMS Arethusa, the action of 15 February 1783 between Concorde and HMS Magnificent. The year after, he painted...
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his maternal uncle, Sir Andrew Snape Hamond's ship, the 32-gun frigate HMS Arethusa. The two sailed to North America, and after spending time along the coast...
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sloop HMS Orestes. He passed his lieutenant's examination on 3 December 1788, and went on to serve aboard HMS Arethusa, HMS Victory, HMS Duke and HMS Juno...
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returning to England, d'Auvergne was assigned to HMS Arethusa as First Lieutenant. On 18 March 1779 Arethusa fought the French vessel Aigrette for two hours...
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December that year. He was to be second lieutenant aboard the 32-gun HMS Arethusa, under Captain Charles Holmes Everitt. It was to be a short-lived appointment...
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of 23 April 1794: The corvette was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Arethusa and HMS Melampus (1785). Beaufoy ( Great Britain): The ship was captured...
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before transferring to take command of the 32-gun HMS Arethusa in March 1771, followed by the 32-gun HMS Southampton in August that year. He was in command...
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renamed Aréthuse 1758, captured by the British Navy 1759 and renamed HMS Arethusa. Maréchal de Richelieu, (30-gun privateer frigate with 24 × 8-pounders...
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