The Spanish ship El Gamo was a 32-gun xebec-frigate of the Spanish Navy which was captured by Lord Cochrane in the action of 6 May 1801. The engagement...
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Imazatosuji Line and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line Spanish frigate El Gamo, an 1801 32-gun Spanish Navy frigate Gamo or Gamou, a Serer religious festival This...
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spectacular victory in the brig HMS Speedy over the vastly superior Spanish frigate El Gamo. Master and Commander met with mixed reviews on its first publication...
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HMS Speedy (1782) (section Speedy and Gamo)
actions against Spanish forces off Gibraltar. Her last captain, Lord Cochrane, forced the surrender of the much larger Spanish frigate El Gamo. A powerful...
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Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo. 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of...
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Action of 6 May 1801 (category Spain articles missing geocoordinate data)
1801 was a minor naval engagement between the 32-gun xebec-frigate El Gamo of the Spanish Navy under the command of Don Francisco de Torres and the much...
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acknowledging." Famously, when Commander Lord Cochrane captured the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo in the 14-gun sloop HMS Speedy a promotion was the usual reward...
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Speedy, although outmanned and outgunned, captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo. May 10 – The pascha of Tripoli declares war on the United States...
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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (redirect from El Metálico Lord)
his most notable exploits was the capture of the Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo on 6 May 1801. El Gamo carried 32 guns and 319 men, compared with Speedy's...
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Xebec (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
and were termed xebec-frigates. The British brig-sloop Speedy's (14 guns, 54 men) defeat of the Spanish xebec-frigate El Gamo (32 guns, 319 men) on 6...
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List of single-ship actions (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
El Gamo (Details)* 1801, June 14 – Liverpool privateer General Keppel repels French privateer Mouche 1801, August 18 – HMS Guachapin captures Spanish...
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Constellation was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. The ship was built under the direction of David...
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HMS Meleager (1785) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
HMS Meleager was a 32-gun Amazon-class frigate' that Greaves and Nickolson built in 1785 at the Quarry House yard in Frindsbury, Kent, England. She served...
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Clarkson Frederick Stanfield – The Action and Capture of the Spanish Xebeque Frigate El Gamo John Mix Stanley – Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies...
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2010, p. 133. The British brig-sloop Speedy's defeat of the Spanish xebec-frigate El Gamo on 6 May 1801, generally regarded as one of the most remarkable...
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Algeciras campaign (category Naval battles involving Spain)
captured the far larger Spanish privateer frigate Gamo off Barcelona. Cochrane's initial belief that the strange ships were Spanish treasure vessels caused...
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HMS Lowestoffe (1761) (category Frigates of the Royal Navy)
HMS Lowestoffe was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Built during the latter part of the Seven Years' War, she went on to see action in the...
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HMS Hannibal (1786) (category Shipwrecks of Spain)
HMS Hector left on a cruise during which at some point they pursued two French frigates. They captured a French merchant ship, Etoille du Matin, on 23 February...
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and returning to Cancale. She was part of a squadron consisting of two frigates (Pomone and Engageante) and another corvette that a British squadron under...
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French ship Indomptable (1790) (category Shipwrecks of Spain)
eight frigates, and on 20 January the fleet sailed for the French Caribbean. Off Cadiz, the fleet was joined by the 74-gun Aigle, and six Spanish ships...
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Demerara, and 11 vessels (Dutch and Spanish) at Essequibo. On 3 February 1782 a squadron of five French ships led by the frigate Iphigénie captured Demerara and...
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On 5 April the squadron sighted a Spanish convoy comprising thirteen merchant vessels and three accompanying frigates, and at once gave chase. When the...
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