HMS Hawk was an 18-gun sloop-of-war, previously the French privateer Atalante, that HMS Plantagenet captured in 1803. The Royal Navy took Atalante into...

HMS Hawk (1793) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1793 and broken up in 1803. HMS Hawk (1795) was a galley in service in 1795 and sold in 1796. HMS Hawk (1803)...

sloop HMS Hawk captured in 1798 HMS Hardi was the French privateer Hardi that HMS Anson captured in 1800. Later that year her name was changed to HMS Rosario...

to the brig HMS Hawk off France's northern coast, managing to bring out an armed brig and three store ships on 19 August 1811 when Hawk drove a convoy...

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...

HMS Plantagenet was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule...

HMS Morne Fortunee was originally the Bermudian schooner Glory, launched in 1801 but captured in 1803 as the French privateer Morne Fortunée. She was...

The Hawk, The Hawk sailed for Calabar, with instructions to buy 340 slaves. Hebe, Portuguese slave ship carrying 401 Angolans when captured by HMS Nimble...

10 December 1803. 1804 HMS Firm—12 gun 1804 HMS Flamer—12 gun 1805 HMS Pomone—38 gun 1806 HMS Shannon—38 gun – Launched 5 May 1806, HMS Shannon, commanded...

was a ship launched in 1796 in France that a Briton purchased c.1803. From late 1803 she sailed as a privateer under a letter of marque until the Royal...

captain to search for deserters from HMS Belleisle, HMS Bellona, HMS Triumph, HMS Chichester, HMS Halifax, and the cutter HMS Zenobia. Chesapeake was off the...

commissioned in 1803 under François Aregnaudeau. She preyed on British and American commerce, notably destroying the Royal Navy corvette HMS Wolverine, before...

Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...

a name in its own right: Kitty, of 12653⁄94 tons (bm), was a vessel that HMS Bellona captured from the French c.1778. The High Court of Admiralty condemned...

United States in April 1802, arriving in mid-July. In ordinary until May 21, 1803, she recommissioned (having her sixteen 9-pounder long guns replaced with...

Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...

Etna-class corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1795. She served until 1803 when the British captured her. Though she served briefly, there is no record...

intercepted by a Royal Navy task force, commanded by Graham Moore aboard HMS Indefatigable, and ordered to change course and proceed to a British port...

she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...

The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Dart. In July 1803 Lloyd's List reported that the frigate HMS Apollo had captured Demerara Packet, but that...

The schooner or gunboat HMS Speedy sank in a snowstorm in Lake Ontario south of the future site of Brighton, Ontario, and west of Prince Edward County...

volcanic mountain as "ereng balam" or "egree belum", meaning "home of the eagle hawk", but the mountain itself was called Berrin. Their Dreaming story tells of...

HMS York was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 March 1796. She served briefly in the West Indies where she captured...

HMS Starling was launched in 1801. She grounded in December 1804 and burnt to avoid her falling into enemy hands. Lieutenant John Baker commissioned Starling...

Prince of Wales was an East Indiaman launched in 1803. She was on her first voyage for the British East India Company when she foundered in 1804 on her...

HMS Rosario was a 20-gun sixth rate of the British Royal Navy. She was previously the French privateer Hardi, which HMS Anson captured in 1800. The navy...

a letter of marque on 2 July 1803. He sailed from Liverpool on 7 April 1803, and arrived at St Thomas on 14 December 1803. She landed 293 slaves. Nile...

established the Hawks' international industrial empire. William (d. 1810) in 1770 partnered with Thomas Longridge (bapt. 1751, d. 1803) and acquired a...

HMS Saldanha was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in April 1810 and spent her entire career serving on...

sustained only minor damage and was subsequently refloated. Argus (1803) versus HMS Pelican (1812) (August 14, 1813): British brig Pelican damaged American...