HMS Babet was a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the British Royal Navy. She had previously been a corvette of the French Navy under the name Babet, until...

and writer HMS Babet (1794), a British, later French, warship Stade Raphaël Babet, a sports stadium on Réunion, Indian Ocean Storm Babet, October 2023...

HMS Favourite (or Favorite) was a 16-gun Cormorant-class sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Rotherhithe. The French captured her in 1806 and...

HMS Vengeance was originally the 48-gun French Navy frigate Vengeance and lead ship of her class. She engaged USS Constellation during the Quasi-War,...

a corvette of the French Navy that the British captured in 1800. Renamed HMS Scout, she served briefly in the Channel before being wrecked in 1801, a...

fifth-rate HMS Concorde. Initially part of squadrons cruising off the French coast, she played an important part in the action of 23 April 1794, capturing...

French 42-gun frigate, lead ship of her class. Launched on 26 September 1794 and commissioned two months later under Commander Beaulieu-Leloup, Forte...

Pomone struck her colors. Melampus and Arethusa captured Babet. The action had cost Babet some 30 to 40 of her crew killed and wounded. Arethusa also...

Pomone, and Babet. Melampus had five men killed and five wounded. He went on to be commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Defence later in 1794 and commanding...

was captured, along with Pomone and Babet, off the Île de Batz during the action of 23 April 1794. Her captor was HMS Concorde. On Engageante 30 to 40 men...

along with Babet and Engageante, off the Île de Batz during the action of 23 April 1794. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Pomone and the...

Malabar was the Nieuwland, launched in 1794 for the Dutch East India Company. The British seized her in 1795 and new owners renamed her Malabar. She made...

Gabriel was a country ship launched in 1794 at Calcutta. She traded east of the Cape of Good Hope, except for at least two voyages for the British East...

9 January 1794, Pique was at Rochefort before Leissègues again carried troops and passengers to the Windward Islands. Pique encountered HMS Blanche (commanded...

London to Jamaica. Babet ( French Navy): Action of 23 April 1794: The corvette was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Arethusa and HMS Melampus (1785). Beaufoy...

HMS Hannibal was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1786, named after the Carthaginian general Hannibal. She...

participated in the action of 23 April 1794, during which the British took three vessels, Engageante, Pomone, and Babet. Melampus had five men killed and five...

HMS Barbuda was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1780 after having briefly served as an American privateer. Barbuda was one of the two sloops that...

in France in 1792, possibly under another name. She was taken in prize in 1794 and sailed first as a West Indiaman, then as a whaler in the British southern...

was one of the original six frigates whose construction the Naval Act of 1794 had authorized. The name "Constellation" was among ten names submitted to...

passenger on HMS Babet, which disappeared in the Caribbean after having been last seen on 24 October 1800 at Martinique. "...the loss of the Babet, the ship...

specie that Lowestoffe was carrying. On 7 February 1794, the 74-gun HMS Fortitude and the 32-gun HMS Juno, unsuccessfully attacked the tower. The tower...

Britannia was launched in 1794 at Northfleet. She made two voyages as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). On her second voyage a...

the dispute was the departure from the harbour on the previous day of HMS Babet, whose captain, Jemmet Mainwaring, had previously been the senior officer...

commander of a small task force that included Malabar, the frigate HMS Undaunted, HMS Babet, HMS Pique, and some transports, and 1200 troops from the 39th, 93rd...

French frigates off the Channel Isles on 23 April 1794, and captured three; the Pomone, Engageante and Babet. Nymphe was then part of the Channel Fleet, under...

part in the action of 23 April 1794, when a squadron comprising Résolue, Engageante, Pomone and the 22-gun corvette Babet met a squadron of five British...

on 7 October 1794 he was promoted to commander, and on 6 April 1795 attained the rank of Post-Captain and the command of the 22-gun Babet from which he...

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...

Captain the Honourable Hugh Lindsay acquired a letter of marque on 3 January 1794. The British government held Rockingham at Portsmouth, together with a number...