1804. Blonde started her career in June 1803 under François Aregnaudeau, a promising privateer captain noted for capturing several valuable ships off Dartmouth...

Blonde-class cruiser, a two ship class of light scout cruisers Blonde (1803 ship), a French 32-gun privateer corvette HMS Blonde (1819), a modified Apollo...

the 550-ton corvette Blonde, from Bordeaux, with 32 guns (24 or twenty-six 8-pounders and 8 or six 6-pounders). On 22 July 1803, he captured Culland's...

1803. On 22 July 1803, as Culland's Grove was in the Atlantic on her way home, she had the misfortune to encounter the French 32-gun privateer Blonde...

two for single-ship actions. She also took a number of prizes. Scorpion was sold in 1819. Scorpion was commissioned in November 1803 under Commander...

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...

1793, the ships of a squadron under the command of Captain Thomas Pasley of HMS Bellerophon captured Blonde. At the time of her capture Blonde was armed...

(details) 1803, May 18 – HMS Doris captures the French lugger Affronteur on the first day of the war. 1803, July 7 – French privateer Blonde captures the...

ship at Chatham in 1811, broken up 1813 HMS Blonde 1787 – hulked for stationary service at Portsmouth in 1803, sold 1805 Active class 32-gun fifth rates...

command of the sloop HMS Rattler in December 1803. Promoted to post-captain he commanded, successively, the post ship HMS Daphne, in which he took part in the...

USS Vixen, cruised off Tripoli until October 31, 1803. While giving chase and firing upon a Libyan navy ship, it ran aground on an uncharted reef two miles...

town of Basse-Terre. Blonde, Thetis and the three sloops bore the brunt of the attack but forced the French to abandon their ships and set fire to them...

in the British southern whale fishery until 1803 when the French privateer François Aregnaudeau in Blonde captured Flirt as she was returning home from...

letter of marque. On 7 July Young Nicholas encountered the French privateer Blonde, of 22 guns and 100 men. The ensuing engagement lasted an hour and a half...

previously the French privateer Atalante, that HMS Plantagenet captured in 1803. The Royal Navy took Atalante into service as HMS Hawk; she foundered in...

adaptation of the play by Euripides in which Irene Papas portrayed (a non-blonde) Helen of Troy. In the 1998 TV series Hercules, Helen appears as a supporting...

Mersey was a ship launched at Chittagong in 1801 and wrecked in the Torres Strait, Australia, about mid-June 1804. She was the first merchantman lost in...

HMS Amphion, commanded by Samuel Sutton, hit the ship's magazine, causing an explosion that sank the ship. 250 Spanish crewmen were lost, and 51 survivors...

HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786....

who had died of measles during a state visit to England. He sailed in HMS Blonde in September 1824, accompanied by several naturalists and, amongst others...

citizens of the tiny colony of Upper Canada lost in the disastrous event. The ship was built for the Provincial Marine in 1798 at the Point Frederick Navy Depot...

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...

commander of HMS Juno, a fifth-rate 32-gun frigate, between 1798 and 1802. In 1803 he was given the command of HMS Elephant, a 74-gun third-rate that had been...

Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built as a ship-of-the-line, but most of her...

station under Captain John William Taylor Dixon. On 21 June 1803, Apollo captured the French ship Bon Accord. Then on 29 June, Apollo captured the French...

32-gun frigate named HMS Blonde in this period, which they suggest was a captured French ship. However the 32-gun HMS Blonde captured in 1760 had been...

L'Aigle (or Aigle, or Eagle) was launched in France in 1801, 1802, or 1803. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1809. From 1810 to 1817, she was a West...

Peace of Amiens, it ordered a further twenty-four sister-ships to the same design between 1803 and 1812. The last was ordered to a fresh 38-gun design...

captured in 1803 as the French privateer Morne Fortunée. She was wrecked in 1804. The British Royal Navy purchased her for £3000 on 29 August 1803 at Bermuda...

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...