• HMS Victoire (or HMS Victor) was the French privateer schooner Victoire that the Royal Navy captured in 1797 and took into service as a fireship. The Navy...
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  • been named Victoire (French:Victory): HMS Victoire (1795), was a lugger purchased in 1795 and listed until 1800. HMS Victoire (1797) (or HMS Victor) was...
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  • bore the name Victoire late in her career. Victoire (1979), a fluyt. Victoire (1797), the captured Venetian ship Vittoria. Victoire (1798), a gunboat...
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  • the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2. Phillips, Michael – HMS Mutine (1797)...
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    HMS Sirius was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Between 1797 and 1805, the Sirius was engaged in maintaining the blockade of Napoleonic Europe...
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  • HMS Pouncer was the mercantile David, launched in 1785 at Leith, that the Admiralty purchased and armed in 1797 as GB No.38. David originally sailed to...
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    frigates HMS Cambrian, HMS Naiad, and St Fiorenzo, together taking the merchant brig Victoire. A prize crew from Triton was assigned to take Victoire to Plymouth...
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  • HMS Sparkler was an Acute-class gunvessel launched in 1797 as GB No.7 and renamed HMS Sparkler in August 1797. She served the Royal Navy during the French...
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    – Action of 13 January 1797, part of the War of the First Coalition: Two British Royal Navy frigates, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Amazon, drive the French...
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  • Nore and Riga under Commander David Lloyd in mid-1797 in the company of HMS Clyde. On 28 December 1797 Termagant was four leagues off Spurn Head when she...
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    HMS Cambrian was a Royal Navy 40-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was built and launched at Bursledon in 1797 and served in the English Channel, off North America...
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    Siege of Genoa (1800). The squadron also included HMS Minotaur, Phoenix, Mondovi, and the tender Victoire, all under the command of Vice-Admiral Lord Keith...
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  • HMS Badger was a Dutch hoy, one of some 19 that the Admiralty purchased for the Royal Navy in 1794 after France's declaration of war in 1793. The intent...
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    Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7. Media related to HMS Naiad (ship, 1797) at Wikimedia Commons Woodland Trust website – Naiad Wood HMS Naiad Association...
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  • Galathée-class frigate, bore the name Renommée during her career. Dubois (1797), a 64-gun Victoire-class ship of the line, bore the name Renommée during her career...
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  • line Éole (1789), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line Robert (1797), a Victoire-class 64-gun ship of the line, was named Éole before taking her definitive...
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    Havre – captured by the English Navy November 1704, becoming HMS Swallow's Prize, 32. Victoire, 26 guns, design by René LeVasseur, launched September 1704...
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    HMS Acasta was a 40-gun Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate. She saw service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as the War of 1812. Although...
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    HMS Echo, launched in 1797 at Dover, was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy. She served on the Jamaica station between 1799 and 1806, and there captured...
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  • needed] In 1797 he was given command of the huge 64-gun HMS Dictator based in Jamaica at the rank of Captain and Commander. In December 1797 he transferred...
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    of stores and crew from HMS Illustrious, which had been badly damaged during the action and subsequent storm. In January 1797, Romulus was in the small...
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    using Congreve rockets, and the next days by gunfire, with no effect. "Une victoire méconnue : Latouche-Tréville contre Nelson". Archived from the original...
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    HMS Zebra was a 16-gun (later 18-gun) Zebra-class sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 August 1780 at Gravesend. She was the second ship to bear the...
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  • Navy captured in August 1793 at Toulon and took into service as HMS Petite Victoire. She was lost off Cap Corse in early 1794. Sans-Culotte (1793–1794)...
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    struck. The Navy took into her service as HMS Legere. The Royal Navy commissioned Legere in November 1797 under Commander Joshua Watson. Commander Cornelius...
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    topmasts when she ran into one of the other ships of the French fleet, Victoire, allowing HMS Inconstant to catch up with and engage her. Agamemnon and Captain...
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    9:00, Ça Ira ran afoul of Victoire, losing her fore and main topmasts and falling back of the French squadron. The frigate HMS Inconstant under Captain...
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    Navy brig Giasone, launched in 1795. The French captured her at Corfu in 1797. She took part in a sanguinary and inconclusive single-ship action with a...
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  • HMS Spider was formerly the French privateer Victoire, built at Dunkirk in 1782, that the Royal Navy captured that same year. The Navy commissioned her...
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    the use of HMS as an abbreviation is a reference to HMS Phoenix in 1789. Victoire may have been the privateer of two guns and 28 men that HMS Mutine had...
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