HMS Rover was a 16-gun sloop-of-war that the Royal Navy purchased in 1796, commissioned in 1798, and that was wrecked in early 1798. In her brief career...

that year. HMS Rover (1796) was a 16-gun sloop launched built in Bermuda in 1796 along with HMS Hunter (1796) and wrecked in 1798. HMS Rover (1808) was...

HMS Hound was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She had a short history. After her launch in 1796 she captured two privateers and destroyed a third before...

HMS Victorious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard, London on 27 April 1785. She was the first ship...

proper to touch [it] up & transmit [it] for insertion". In December 1804 HMS York (1796) was wrecked on the rock, and lost with all hands, so its constant danger...

livres. French privateer sloop Jean Bart, captured on 16 May 1798 by HMS Rover. French privateer Jean Bart of 100 tons, three guns (one a 16-pounder)...

was recommissioned as HMS Hebe. In December 1784 Hebe captured Rover, a lugger engaged in smuggling, off the Isle of Wight. Rover had a cargo of 2,000...

eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. HMS Stag Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard Ordered: 9 December 1790 Laid down:...

sloop-of-war HMS Rover (1779). After cruising off Martinique for a time, he was promoted to post captain on 16 June 1780 and given command of the 74-gun HMS Terrible...

4 May 1796 by HMS Esperance and HMS Bonetta. Sailing from Aux Cayes to New York City, Poisson Volant was intercepted by HMS Esperance and HMS Bonetta...

admiral in Swedish service. Roche, p.394 Troude (1867), p. 100—101. Kerguelen (1796), p. 182-183. Levot, p.207 Benson, Adolph B. (1926). Sweden and the American...

Tarleton was launched in 1796 at Liverpool for Tarleton & Co., a Liverpool firm that had been in the slave trade for three generations. She made two full...

September. HMS Pique was commissioned in September 1795 under Captain David Milne, and assigned to serve in the Leeward Islands. On 9 March 1796, Pique and...

Captain Richard Atherton Farington received a letter of marque on 4 May 1796. He sailed from Portsmouth on 27 June, bound for China. Henry Addington reached...

HMS Swiftsure was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She spent most of her career serving with the British, except for a...

Bay also does not list a suitable vessel. Lion entered Lloyd's Register in 1796 with Thompson, master, Camden, owner, and trade London–East Indies. The 1797...

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Rover was launched in 1786 in Poole. She spent her brief career sailing to Newfoundland from England, and returning via Spain, having delivered fish (probably...

Indies in 1778. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1781 and commissioned her as HMS Chaser. A French frigate captured her in 1782 but the Royal Navy recaptured...

HMS Boyne was a 98-gun Royal Navy second-rate ship of the line launched on 27 July 1790 at Woolwich. She was the flagship of Vice Admiral John Jervis...

flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission), and HMS Warrior, the Royal Navy's first ironclad warship. The former HMS Vernon...

Hibberts, Chisholm, master, as she was sailing from Jamaica to London, but HMS Santa Margarita recaptured her. As Hibberts was returning to England, she...

would provide any necessary transport. The Royal Navy commissioned her as HMS Fleche under Commander John Gore upon her capture. He fitted her out and...

29 Jan: Auguste 30 Jan: Superbe Jan: Rover Mar: Chambers 24 Apr: Galathée 1 May: Boyne 13 Jul: Alcide 2 Aug: HMS Diomede 11 Aug: Solicitor General Aug:...

life to "the opening chapters of Fenimore Cooper's Water Witch and Red Rover." While in Boston, Cornwall drew the ire of provincial authorities for heavy-handedness...

peace treaty was announced between the United States and Algiers in March 1796. In accordance with the clause in the Naval Act, construction of United States...

Gloria all'Egitto from Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, with the assembly line of the Rover 800; Robin Brundle; Eric Fountain of Vauxhall Motors; Ojos Criollos by Louis...

Prairial, where she followed the flagship Montagne, and failed to prevent HMS Queen Charlotte from breaking the French line. In December 1794, she was...

British. On 14 July 1794 she and Seine captured the 16-gun sloop-of-war HMS Hound in the Atlantic. In the night of 23 to 24 April 1795, Galathée ran...

in Calcutta in 1789 or 1791. She made one voyage transporting convicts in 1796 from Ireland to Australia. The voyage was marred by mutiny that resulted...