Désirée was a Romaine-class frigate of the French Navy, launched at Dunkirk in 1794. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1800 and took her into service...
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captured the Kaufhandel. Dart, captured the French frigate Désirée on 8 July 1800 in the raid on Dunkirk. Désirée was armed with 40 guns, those on the main...
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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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class of nine frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1794 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. They were originally designated as "bomb-frigates" (Fr. frégate-bombarde)...
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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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Républicaine française was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, of the Galathée class. The Royal Navy captured her in 1796. The Navy fitted her as a troopship...
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HMS Babet (1794) (redirect from French corvette Babet (1793))
Thomas, with a cargo of wine, French property. Then on 16 January 1798 Babet's boats captured the French schooner Désirée. The schooner was sailing towards...
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HMS Indefatigable (1784) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
Royal Navy took the frigate into service as HMS Unite. On the morning of 20 April 1796, Indefatigable sighted the French 44-gun frigate Virginie off the...
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"British Fifth Rate frigate 'Shannon' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022. "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Diane' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved...
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Rear-Admiral Kingsmill, principally Polyphemus and a frigate squadron, in late December 1796 when the French launched the Expédition d'Irlande, an attempt to...
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HMS Andromeda (1784) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
four French frigates with a fleet of fire ships and small boats, capturing one of them, Désirée. Inman was sent to command the captured French frigate and...
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Henry Inman (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
guard them. Désirée was brought back to Britain and commissioned into the Royal Navy, Inman taking command of the new frigate. In 1801, Désirée was attached...
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HMS Nemesis (1780) (category Sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy)
28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The French captured her in 1795 at Smyrna, but in 1796 a squadron led by Barfleur brought...
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List of clasps to the Naval General Service Medal (1847) (section French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1802))
Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. "Destruction of the frigate L'Elize". Royal Navy History. Archived from the original on 30 September...
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Charles Ross (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
March 1793 and April 1796 he served as master's mate and then midshipman, firstly in the fire-ship Conflagration and then the frigate Tartar (28), both commanded...
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Prévoyante (1793) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
British vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the French frigate Désirée, which HMS Dart, under Patrick Campbell, captured on 8 July 1800...
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HMS Heureux (1800) (category Privateer ships of France)
HMS Amelia (1796). One was the former Duke of York Packet, which had been captured in 1803. On 31 May 1805, off Cape Nicola Mole, Heureux captured the French felucca...
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HMS Spider (1782) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
the master of a vessel that a French privateer had captured. The American reported that on 27 February 12 French frigates, transports, and supply ships...
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HMS Quebec (1781) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
fifth-rate frigate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1816. She sailed under various captains, participating in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary...
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HMS Leda (1800) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
sailing frigates. Leda's design was based on the French Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. (Hébé herself was the name vessel for the French Hébé-class...
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Edward Hawker (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
during the French Revolutionary Wars, Hawker was aboard HMS Swiftsure at the action of 7 May 1794, when his ship captured the French frigate Atalante,...
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Henry Heathcote (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
no further service until the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars. He took a frigate out to the West Indies, and achieved some successes against privateers...
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24 June 1796 to 1799. In 1797 she was under the command of under Lieutenant James Rains. May saw her participating in the capture of the French privateer...
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(2784). 12 January 1796. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2783). 8 January 1796. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2788). 26 January 1796. "Ship News". The...
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Melpomene, taking part in the bombardment of French ports. He transferred in 1805 to the 36-gun frigate HMS Euryalus, under Captain Henry Blackwood, the...
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