• of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sans Pareil, after the French meaning 'without equal': HMS Sans Pareil (1794) was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the...
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    HMS Sans Pareil ("Without Equal") was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French ship Sans Pareil, but was captured...
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    an 80-gun second rate, to the lines of the earlier HMS Sans Pareil, a French prize captured in 1794. She was ordered on 27 February 1843 and laid down...
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  • Sans Pareil (Translated as "Peerless" or "Unequalled"): French ship Sans Pareil (1669), a 62-gun ship of the line, wrecked in 1679. French ship Sans Pareil (1685)...
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    flagship HMS Royal George pierced it between Républicain and Sans Pareil, engaging both closely, while HMS Glory came through the line behind Sans Pareil and...
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    32-gun frigate HMS Castor. Thomas Troubridge, captain of the Castor, would spend the entire campaign aboard Nielly's flagship Sans Pareil. Montagu also...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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    the Battle of Groix. During the battle HMS Sans Pareil and HMS Colossus recaptured Alexander. After the battle, HMS Révolutionnaire towed her back to Plymouth...
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    crew were removed from their ship and taken aboard Nielly's flagship Sans Pareil, where they remained for the rest of the campaign. They were replaced...
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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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    1873, stricken in 1880, scrapped in 1882. Sans Pareil: ordered on 15 March 1811 and laid down as Sans Pareil in April 1811 at Brest. Renamed Roi de Rome...
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    of Trafalgar Sans Pareil Builder: Brest Begun: October 1790 Launched: 8 June 1793 Completed: September 1793 Fate: Captured 1 June 1794 by the Royal Navy...
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    flagship, Sans Pareil, and would have to wait for the defeat of the French fleets at the Glorious First of June and the capture of Sans Pareil before they...
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    in the engagement. In 1795, Seymour moved to the recently captured HMS Sans Pareil and soon became a rear-admiral, engaging the French at the Battle of...
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    and fish. More importantly, they also captured the French navy cutter Sans Pareil, of 16 guns and 100 men, as she was sailing from Martinique to Cap-Français...
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    specifically ordered his "best-sailing" ships HMS Sans Pareil, HMS Orion, HMS Colossus, HMS Irresistible, HMS Valiant and HMS Russell, to break from the formation...
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    June: The 74-gun third rate was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Colossus and HMS Sans Pareil. Alfred ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by the French...
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  • promoted to captain in 1796 and afterwards joined the ship of the line HMS Sans Pareil, from which he was sent to become lieutenant-governor of Curacoa Island...
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  • appointed to Galathée from November 1793 to March 1794, and then on Sans Pareil. On 19 March 1794, Montalan received his first command, the corvette...
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  • of Ushant, also known as the Glorious First of June, in 1794. He transferred to HMS Sans Pareil after she was captured in the battle. He was wounded in...
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    October 1805 off Rota Sans Pareil 80 (launched 8 June 1793 at Brest) – Captured by the British in the Glorious First of June 1794 and added to the RN under...
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    invaded Corsica in 1794, but the British managed to raise her and recommissioned her in the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS St Fiorenzo (also San...
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  • America (2.8.1794); the 18-gun "La Victoire", in the West Indies (19.4.1795); "L'Egalite" in the West Indies (8.5.1795); "Le Sans Pareil" in West Indies...
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  • and promoted to Captain. He took command of the Sans Pareil, and later of the Scévola. In January 1794, as a nobleman, Christy-Pallière was removed from...
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    and fish. More importantly, they also captured the French navy cutter Sans Pareil, of 16 guns and 100 men, as she was sailing from Martinique to Cap-Français...
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  • 74-gun Leviathan, under Lord Hugh Seymour, following him into the 80-gun Sans Pareil, and seeing action at the Battle of Groix on 23 June 1795. After serving...
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    reach the French until late in the engagement and taking possession of Sans Pareil. Despite joining the fighting, Lord Howe omitted Cotton from his dispatch...
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  • to contre-amiral. In April 1794, in the context of the Atlantic campaign of May 1794, he set his mark on the Sans Pareil and led a 5-ship and 2-frigate...
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    June in 1794, broken up 1811 Ça Ira 80 (1784) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June in 1794, Burnt by accident 11 April 1896. Sans Pareil 80 (1793)...
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    Island. Upon Discovery's return to England, Whidbey served briefly in HMS Sans Pareil, but eventually turned to a shoreside career. In 1799, the then Earl...
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