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    HMS Malta was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the Tonnant-class Guillaume Tell...
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  • Four ships of Royal Navy have been named HMS Malta after the Mediterranean island: HMS Malta (1800 schooner) was a Spanish 10-gun schooner built and launched...
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  • HMS Malta was the Spanish 10-gun schooner Malta, built and launched in the United States of America in 1797. The British captured her in 1800. After the...
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    settlements and main port on the Mediterranean island of Malta, between 1798 and 1800. Malta had been captured by a French expeditionary force during...
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    Battle of the Malta Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 18 February 1800 during the Siege of Malta. The French garrison...
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  • Two ships of Royal Navy have been named HMS Gozo after the Mediterranean island of Gozo: HMS Malta (1800 schooner) was a Spanish 10-gun schooner built...
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  • up in Malta. HMS Courageux (1800), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1800, laid up in 1814, and later in use as a lazaretto. Broken up 1832. HMS Courageous (50)...
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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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    captured her in June 1800 and commissioned her as HMS Cruelle. She spent a little over a year in the Mediterranean, serving at Malta and Alexandria before...
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    The Maltese Light Infantry was a light infantry battalion of the British Army which existed from 1800 to 1802 in Malta, then a British protectorate. It...
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  • service from 1810 and sold in 1828. HMS Intrepid (1780) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1780. She foundered in 1800. HMS Intrepid (1850) was a wood-hulled...
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  • Napoleon's Minister of Marine. In 1800, as she tried to escape from Malta, HMS Success, HMS Northumberland, and HMS Genereux captured her. At the time...
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  • HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to...
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  • honours: Guillaume Tell, 1800 Egypt, 1801 Martinique, 1809 Baltic, 1854 Alexandria, 1882 Norway, 1940 Mediterranean, 1941−43 Malta Convoys, 1941−42 Sirte...
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  • Negapatam, 1782 Trincomalee, 1782 Calabria, 1940 Mediterranean, 1940 Malta Convoys, 1942 HMS Eaglet French ship Aigle Paullin and Paxson (1914), p.436. "No...
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  • in 1771. HMS Warspite (1758) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1758. She was on harbour service from 1778, was renamed HMS Arundel in 1800 and was broken...
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  • later that year before selling her in 1802. HMS Athenienne (1800) was a vessel that the Knights of Malta constructed but that the French captured and...
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  • capture of Malta in 1800. The Navy laid her up in 1802 and had her broken up in 1809. HMS Strombolo was a bomb vessel, formerly the 14-gun sloop HMS Autumn...
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    The Maltese rebelled after a couple of months of French rule and asked Britain for help. Eventually, the French capitulated in 1800 and Malta voluntarily...
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    garrisoned by the British from 1800 to 1979, at times being classified as a stone frigate known as HMS Egmont or later HMS St Angelo. The fort suffered...
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  • Casilda. The British Royal Navy captured her on 6 April 1800 and took her into service as HMS Florentina. She served in the Mediterranean until she returned...
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  • and sold in 1712. HMS Express (1800) was a small, 6-gun schooner-rigged advice boat launched in 1800 and sold in 1813. HMS Express (1815) was a schooner...
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    After a brief stay off Malta the squadron continued to Alexandria. There Nelson sent the squadron back to blockade Malta. HMS Foudroyant departed Naples...
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    March 1800 was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought between a Royal Navy squadron and a French Navy ship of the line off Malta in the...
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  • Nan Chiang in 1950. Served until 1974. HMS Falcon (Hal Far, Malta) was a Royal Navy Air Station at Hal Far, Malta. Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]...
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    HMS Rosario was a 20-gun sixth rate of the British Royal Navy. She was previously the French privateer Hardi, which HMS Anson captured in 1800. The navy...
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    frigate HMS Seahorse under Captain Edward Foote encountered and captured the French frigate Sensible, which was returning to Toulon from Malta with a cargo...
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  • HMS Madras was laid down as Lascelles, an East Indiaman being built for the British East India Company (EIC). The Royal Navy purchased her on the stocks...
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  • a bomb-vessel, and renamed her. She participated in the capture of Malta in 1800. The Navy laid her up in 1802 and had her broken up in 1809. Strombolo...
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  • sixth rate and renamed her HMS Cormorant in 1797; she was wrecked in 1800. HMS Aetna (1803) was the mercantile Success launched in 1803 at Littlehampton...
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