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    Pomone was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1785. The British captured her off the Île de Batz in April 1794 and incorporated her into...
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  • capture in 1760. French transport Pomone (1770), a requisitioned transport ship, sold in 1771. French frigate Pomone (1785), a 40-gun frigate, captured during...
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    Endymion 40 guns 1797; later classed as 50-gun frigate; built to the lines of the French Pomone of 1785 (captured 1794) – broken up 1868 Endymion class...
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    of designer Joshua Humphreys for a fleet of frigates powerful enough to engage any frigates of the French or British navies, yet fast enough to evade...
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    This article is a list of French naval frigates during the Age of Sail, from the middle of the 17th century (when the type emerged) until the close of...
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  • The Impérieuse was a 40-gun Minerve-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1793 and she served first as HMS Imperieuse and then...
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  • carrying eight brass guns. The frigates Artois, Galatea and Anson, and the hired armed lugger Duke of York assisted Pomone in the capture. The British latter...
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    Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    fighting the Pomone, at the time the largest frigate in service. Pomone surrendered after an engagement that lasted less than half an hour. The French had suffered...
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    24-pounder long gun (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    on the 24-pounder frigate exemplified by the Romaine class. Overall, 14 of these heavy frigates were built between Pomone in 1785, and Poursuivante in...
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  • "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Meleager' (1785)". Threedecks. Retrieved 22 October 2021. "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Taganrog' (1785)". Threedecks. Retrieved...
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    Engageante was a 26-gun frigate of the French Navy, only ship of her class, built to a design by Jean-François Etienne. The British captured her in 1794...
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    Robert Barrie (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    sloop Calypso. Barrie took command of the frigate HMS Pomone in June 1806, serving initially off the French coast and then in the Mediterranean. He captured...
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    HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before...
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    Phaeton. In October 1793 Gell was able to obtain the surrender of the French frigate Modeste, which had abused the neutrality of the port of Genoa. After...
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  • a former French 30-gun frigate. The tern "frigate" was often used loosely. Butterworth's previous name was American, and there was no French warship of...
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    the line was captured by the Royal Navy. PomoneFrench Navy): Action of 23 April 1794: The 40-gun frigate was captured by the Royal Navy. Peggy ( Great...
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  • HMS Coureur (category Ships built in France)
    was a schooner launched in 1785 or 1788 in the United States that the French acquired and armed at Lorient in 1794. Pomone captured her in 1795. Coureuse...
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  • Samuel Pechell (category 1785 births)
    the Royal Navy under the guidance of his uncle, joining HMS Pomone in 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars. The following year he moved to HMS Phoebe...
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    USS President (1800) (category Sailing frigates of the United States Navy)
    USS President was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, nominally rated at 44 guns; she was launched in April 1800 from...
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    HMS Argo (1781) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
    Shirley was ready to return to Antigua. The French found out about this and sent the 36-gun French frigate Nymphe and the 32-gun Amphitrite to intercept...
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    Charles Jean d'Hector (category French Royalist military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    11 February 1756 and the same year was put in command of the 30-gun frigate Pomone. After hunting Barbary pirates off the Mediterranean coast, he was made...
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  • Lawrence Halsted (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Phoenix, which quickly got underway, accompanied by Pomone. Realising the situation the two French frigates attempted to flee, now pursued by their former...
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  • of ships built is unknown but two of the later ones were: 1785 HMS Meleager—32 gun frigate was part of a squadron off the coast of Genoa in 1794 under...
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  • Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland &c. No. 1785. 28 November 1835. "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet. No. 2670. Hull...
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