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    HMS Belvidera was a Royal Navy 36-gun Apollo-class frigate built in Deptford in 1809. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and continued...
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  • capture of Rising States. Jaseur shared her prize money, by agreement, with Belvidera and Narcissus. Niemen escorted a convoy to Bermuda in January 1814, and...
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  • President captured the British schooner Highflyer. Vixen (1813) versus HMS Belvidera (1809) (December 25, 1813): The capture of the American schooner Vixen...
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    HMS Poictiers was a 74-gun Royal Navy third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 9 December 1809 at Upnor. During the War of 1812 she was part...
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    sold in April 1817 HMS Manilla 1809 – wrecked on the Haak Sands off the Texel at Callantsoog on 28 January 1812 HMS Belvidera 1809 – store depot at Portsmouth...
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    captured in the 19th century Bibliography of early American naval history HMS Belvidera recaptured Nocton on 5 January 1813. Nocton underwent some refitting...
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    1812 and was present at the engagement with HMS Belvidera. Rodgers fired the first shot of the war at Belvidera. A later shot resulted in a cannon bursting...
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    pursuit, and on 23 June they encountered what was later learned to be HMS Belvidera. President pursued the ship, and in what is recorded as the first shot...
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    determined that they were a British squadron out of Halifax: HMS Aeolus, Africa, Belvidera, Guerriere, and Shannon. They had sighted Constitution and were...
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    Gunboat War (category Conflicts in 1809)
    23 July near the Norwegian island of Silda. The British frigates HMS Belvidera and HMS Nemesis attacked the pilot's station on the island and defeated...
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  • from the Belvidera, Maidstone and Junon captured the American 6-gun privateer Lottery in Chesapeake Bay on 8 February 1813. The Statira, Belvidera and Morgiana...
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    was recaptured on 13 December 1809 by Clorinde and Renommée and renamed HMS Junon. D'Hautpoul |  French Navy | 17 April 1809 A Téméraire-class 74-gun ship...
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  • in April 1851. HMS Belvidera Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 28 September 1808 Laid down: December 1808 Launched: 23 December 1809 Completed: 16 February...
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  • the capture of Martinique in February 1809. She formed part of a small squadron with HMS Cleopatra and the brig HMS Recruit, which was sent into Fort-de-France...
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    Hornet during her chase of HMS Belvidera and her actions with HMS Peacock in February 1813 and the March 1815 capture of HMS Penguin. During the capture...
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    HMS Belvidera captures USS Vixen II 1814, January 11 – British merchantman Hibernia drives off the American privateer Comet 1814, February – HMS Epervier...
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    the Little Belt affair in May 1811, and during the engagement with HMS Belvidera on June 23, 1812. Having received his commission as a lieutenant on...
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  • which was blockading the Delaware River. The squadron also included Belvidera and two sloops. On 16 March, Beresford sent a demand to Lewistown, for...
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    shortly before captured Thétis, which later entered service as HMS Brune. Shannon spent 1809 with the Channel Fleet and on 27 January captured the French...
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    fifth rate frigate HMS Leonidas on 17 November. Next, Hope took command of the 32-gun frigate HMS Topaze on 4 May 1809. In October 1809, a squadron under...
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    in pursuit, and on 23 June encountered what was later learned to be HMS Belvidera. United States and the squadron returned to pursuing the Jamaican fleet...
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  • but the news only arrived in New York on 20 June. After the frigate Belvidera arrived in Nova Scotia with the news that war had been declared and that...
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    notices and most other accounts give the name of the third vessel as Belvidera. Then by September, Pelorus was under the command of Commander John Gourly...
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  • Battle of Valparaiso. He had to surrender to the frigate HMS Phoebe and the sloop-of-war HMS Cherub when Essex became too disabled to offer any resistance...
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  • Talavera Vernon Anson (category 1809 births)
    Primrose, and went on to serve as a junior officer in Rattlesnake and Belvidera on the West India and Mediterranean stations. In his book The Navy in...
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    squadron was composed of one ship of the line and four frigates HMS Africa, Shannon, Belvidera, Aeolus and Guerriere, who were in close pursuit for two days...
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  • September 1830, by which time Ferris was dead. On 23 July 1810, boats from HMS Belvidera, Captain Richard Byron, and Nemesis attacked three gun-schooners of...
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  • martial to try Joseph Fountain, Master of HMS Polyphemus. Dashwood's next command was the 36-gun frigate HMS Belvidera, which he obtained in January 1810, and...
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    USS Constitution was off the coast and defeated HMS Guerriere, which had just departed from Halifax. (A month earlier HMS Belvidera had arrived in port having escaped...
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