• name HMS Danae, after the Greek heroine Danaë. HMS Danae (1759) was a 38-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1759 by HMS Southampton and HMS Melampe...
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    captured her off the Île de Ré on 7 August 1798. The Admiralty took her into the Royal Navy as the post ship HMS Danae. Some of her crew mutinied in 1800 and...
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  • in 1866 but cancelled in 1867. HMS Diomede (D92) was a Danae-class light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946. HMS Diomede (F16) was a Leander-class...
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  • HMS Dragon (D46), a Danae-class light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon. HMS Dragon (1982)...
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  • in 1779 as HMS Zephyr. She was renamed HMS Navy Transport in 1782, HMS Dispatch in 1783 and was sold in 1798. HMS Dispatch (1790) was a sloop captured from...
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  • (1981) The Devil Himself: The Mutiny of 1800 (1988) – this is the story of HMS Danae and the mutiny aboard her. At 12 Mr Byng Was Shot (1962) Guns (1965) Pace...
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    Jamaica; sold 1814. Vaillante, launched 1796, captured 1798 and renamed HMS Danae, returned to French control by mutineers on March 14, 1800, and renamed...
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    British took her into service as Danae. On 15 November 1798, Indefatigable captured Mercurius. At dawn on 31 December 1798, Indefatigable captured the Minerve...
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    by HMS San Fiorenzo off Ceylon in March 1808 and put into service as HMS Piedmontaise. Italienne, (launched 15 August 1806 at Saint-Servan). Danaé, (launched...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    the Mediterranean after Jervis' departure in 1799. In 1762, HMS Gosport, HMS Danae and HMS Superb under Captain Joshua Rowley, convoyed the East and West...
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    Royal Navy's HMS Danae. Santa Antonio ( Spanish Navy): The 14-gun ship was captured on 23 June in the Mediterranean Sea by the Royal Navy's HMS Terpsichore...
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    HMS Ethalion was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Joseph Graham of Harwich and launched on 14 March 1797....
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    HMS Manilla was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Commissioned by Captain George Seymour in September 1809, Manilla's first...
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    station, in December 1797, he was placed in temporary command of HMS Emerald and by 1798, at the age of 19, he had been promoted to post-captain having...
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    was discovered to have been one of the mutineers on Danae, which Indefatiagble had captured in 1798, and which had suffered a mutiny earlier in 1800. The...
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    off Valona; the French responded by despatching the frigates Danaé and Flore from Toulon. HMS Topaze attacked these frigates as they arrived, but they were...
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    24 December. 150 survivors were rescued by the boats of Sylph, HMS Nimrod, and HMS Danae, before they were transferred to Sylph who brought them to Plymouth...
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  • Early records have her launch year as 1795, but later records have it as 1798. She entered British records in 1800 as trading with the Far East. As the...
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  • by Gower. He was present at the capture of Minorca in 1798. Captain Kerr was appointed to HMS Fisgard in September 1804, and a month later he captured...
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    Operators  French Navy  Royal Navy Preceded by Pourvoyeuse class Succeeded by Danaé class Planned 6 Completed 6 Lost 3 Retired 3 General characteristics Type...
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    HMS Harpy was a Royal Navy Diligence-class brig-sloop, launched in 1796 and sold in 1817. She was the longest lived vessel of her class, and the most...
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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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    at Saint-Domingue on 23 April, Linois spent eight months on the frigate, Danaé before rejoining Réfléchi. In May 1786, he took a land-based post as sous-lieutenant...
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    the frigate HMS Flora in 1776. Pellew was promoted to lieutenant in the Royal George in April 1779 and then served on the frigates Danae and Apollo. He...
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    himself well acquainted with large squid, having eaten one (likely Taningia danae) in soup form on 3 March 1769, during James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific...
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  • Die Frau ohne Schatten, Friedenstag, Guntram, Intermezzo, Die Liebe der Danae, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Die schweigsame Frau Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971):...
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  • United States and France Volume 2 Part 1 of 3 Naval Operations November 1798 to March 1799" (PDF). U.S. Government printing office via Imbiblio. p. 297...
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