HMS Capelin was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner carrying four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich...

purchased the Newcastle collier Ramillies in June 1804 and commissioned her as HMS Proselyte in September 1804, having converted her to a 28-gun sixth rate...

HMS Rapid was an Archer-class (1804 batch) gun-brig of 12 guns, launched in 1804. She took part in April 1808 in one action that in 1847 the Admiralty...

HMS Hirondelle was the French privateer Hirondelle that HMS Bittern captured in 1804. The Royal Navy took Hirondelle into service under her existing name...

vessels to be completed and ready for sea by the last of this month. The Capelin and Mackeral will not be launched until the middle of next month and I...

launched in December 1804. Under Captain Jean-Michel Mahé, she took part in the capture of the Royal Navy 18-gun sloop-of-war HMS Cyane in May 1805, the...

Young's command. On 28 June she was unsuccessful in rescuing the schooner Capelin, which had run onto the Parquette Rock while reconnoitering the harbour...

three different stations: Newfoundland: Herring, Mackerel, Pilchard, and Capelin Jamaica:- Barracuta, Whiting, Pike, and Haddock Leeward Islands: Flying...

HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Leda's design was based...

HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to...

Ivan Federovich Kruzenshtern. "Voyage round the world in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806, on orders of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on...

HMS Fama was the Danish brig Fama, of fourteen guns, built in 1802, that the British captured in 1808. She was wrecked at the end of the year. Fama was...

hunting. Its favourite prey were fish, including Atlantic menhaden and capelin, and crustaceans. Although agile in the water, it was clumsy on land. Great...

HMS Centaur was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 March 1797 at Woolwich. She served as Sir Samuel Hood's flagship in the Leeward...

HMS Raposa was the Spanish brig Raposa, launched in 1804. A cutting out expedition in 1806 by boats from HMS Franchise in the western Caribbean captured...

Register and the Register of Shipping in various volumes report it as 1802, 1804, or even 1816. However, Amphitrite appears in Lloyd's Register in 1802 with...

February 1804. The warrant notes that Lord Nelson now carried 32 guns but did not distinguish how many of each type. She left on 20 March 1804 for the...

HMS Jupiter was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary...

left Britain on 9 April 1803. She was reported at Delagoa Bay in 1804. In mid-1804, HMS Courageaux escorted a convoy from St Helena back to Britain. The...

supplies to Revel'. She then served in the Baltic before undergoing repairs in 1804. In September 1805 she transported troops to Pomerania. In early 1808 Russia...

Majestic was launched at Whitby in 1804. She served the British government as a transport until she burned at Barbados on 20 October 1808, due to an act...

January 1804, before arriving at Blackwall on 15 February. EIC voyage #2 (1804-1805): Captain Peter Campbell acquired a letter of marque on 4 May 1804. He...

HMS Milbrook (or Millbrook) was one of six vessels built to an experimental design by Sir Samuel Bentham. After the Royal Navy took her into service in...

Paramatta 18 May: HMS Rapid 15 Jun: Hebe 16 Jun: HM Hired armed ship Harlequin 30 Jun: HMS Capelin June (unknown date): Eliza 10 Jul: HMS Netley 19 Jul:...

William Bligh. She was lost in 1808. Paramatta entered Lloyd's Register in 1804 with Campbell, master, Hulet & Co., owners, and trade London–(New) South...

was wrecked in April 1808 as she set out on her third. On 2 October 1803 HMS Acasta captured the French privateer Adventure. Adventure was out of Bordeaux...

Majesty's hired armed ship Harlequin served the British Royal Navy from 2 July 1804 until she was wrecked on 7 December 1809. She was of 18537⁄94 tons (bm),...

Low Head Lighthouse Shipwrecks of Tasmania One source gives the year as 1804, but that is in error. Calcutta Monthly Journal (October 1803), p.387. Phipps...

into British hands. She became a West Indiaman. The French captured her in 1804 but she quickly returned to British hands. She was wrecked at Aux Cayes in...

Bordeaux. On 6 December 1803 HMS Goliath recaptured Rachael. After arbitration Goliath had to share the prize money with HMS Defiance. Rachael came into...