• HMS Deux Amis was the French privateer schooner Deux Amis, launched in 1796. The British captured her in December 1796 and the Royal Navy took her into...
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  • HMS Orestes was an 18-gun Dutch-built brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally built as the privateer Mars, which the British captured in 1781...
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    HMS Clyde was a Royal Navy Artois-class frigate built at Chatham Dockyard of fir (pitch pine), and launched in 1796. In 1797, she was one of only two...
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    as HMS Legere. Then, in December, Apollo and Polyphemus were off the Irish coast when they captured the 14-gun French privateer schooner Deux Amis, of...
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    later. In December 1796, Polyphemus and Apollo were off the Irish coast when they captured the 14-gun French privateer schooner Deux Amis, of 100 tons bm...
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    Lucy, F. G. Voizard, Master, Desiree, J. V, Coltais, Paix, B. Potel, Deux Amis, P. Endelinne, and Gun Pinnace, No. 311, A. Hice. On 4 April 1806 Renommee...
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    Atlantic ocean off the coast of Africa by the British ship Hope. Les Deux Amis ( France): The full-rigged ship was captured in the Bengal River. Le Triomphant...
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    HMS Impregnable was a Royal Navy 98-gun second rate ship of the line launched on 15 April 1786 at Deptford Dockyard. She was wrecked in 1799 off Spithead...
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  • as the sixth-rate HMS Jamaica. Musquito must have been in company or in sight as she shared in the proceeds of the capture. In 1796 Lieutenant Mann, (act...
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  • Cicero was launched at Sunderland in 1796 and initially sailed as a West Indiaman. She was briefly captured in 1799 in a single-ship action with a French...
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  • HMS Eagle was a Dutch hoy that the Admiralty purchased in 1794. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in March 1794 under Lieutenant David Hamline...
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    as convoy escorts. The Admiralty purchased Ceres in 1795 and renamed her HMS Grampus. In 1797 the Admiralty converted her to a storeship. That year her...
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  • Navy. The British Royal Navy captured her at the end of 1796 and took her into service as HMS Amaranthe. She captured one French vessel in a single-ship...
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    HMS Blanche was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was ordered towards the end of the American War of Independence, but only briefly...
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  • casualties were reported for either side. On 1 August, Alcmene captured Deux Amis. On 15 October 1799, Naiad sighted two Spanish frigates. She gave chase...
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    HMS Spitfire was a Tisiphone-class fireship of the Royal Navy. She served during the years of peace following the end of the American War of Independence...
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  • and reached Madras on 16 December. She arrived at Kedgeree on 20 February 1796. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 10 May, Madras again on 2 July, and...
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    marees St. Jean, St. Francois, and Louise (10 and 12 July); chasse marees Deux Amis, Marie, and Jean Baptiste (5 September; Dryad sharing with four other...
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    recommissioned her. On 9 July 1815, Podargus captured the French vessel Deux Amis. Wallis sailed Podargus to St. Helena. Napoleon Bonaparte, though denying...
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  • Gazette. 16 April 1796. p. 352. "No. 13943". The London Gazette. 22 October 1796. p. 1003. "No. 13887". The London Gazette. 26 April 1796. p. 388. "No. 13914"...
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    chasse-marées on 27 June 1807 in the Pertuis Breton. The captured vessels were: Deux Amis (armed with two 4-pounder guns), Trois Frères Horaces (armed with four...
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  • 23 May: HMS Deux Amis May (unknown date): Phoenix 28 Sep: HMS Blanche 9 Oct: HMS Lutine 14 Oct: HMS Nassau 18 Oct: HMS Impregnable 25 Oct: HMS Amaranthe...
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    the French privateer Les Amis, which was armed with two 4-pounder guns and six swivels, and had a crew of 31 men. Les Amis had left Boulogne at 7 p.m...
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