• HMS Foxhound was the French Navy's brig Basque, launched in 1809, that the British Royal Navy captured in 1809 and took into service as a 16-gun sloop...
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  • foundered in 1809 in the Atlantic. HMS Foxhound (1809) was a 16-gun sloop, originally the French Navy's brig Basque. She was captured in 1809 and sold in...
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    HMS Foxhound was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by King at Dover and launched in 1806. She participated in the battle of the Basque Roads in...
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    HMS Sophie was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She served during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During the War of 1812...
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    court-martial for the loss of Agamemnon was held at Rio de Janeiro on 22 July 1809, aboard HMS Bedford. It was found that the ship might have been saved if she had...
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    HMS Persian was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Daniel List and launched at Cowes in 1809. She captured two privateers before she wrecked in 1813...
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    HMS Arachne was an 18 gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop that served in the First Anglo-Burmese War and was sold into merchant service in 1837. She was wrecked...
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    in company with the sloops Foxhound and Goldfinch. Foxhound was also in company for the capture of Nymphe. In April 1809 Indefatigable participated in...
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    HMS Crane was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809. She had an unusually uneventful five-year career before she foundered in 1814. She...
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  • Basque Roads to attack the stranded French fleet, Redpole, Dotterel, HMS Foxhound and two rocket vessels, joined Cochrane at the mouth of the Charente...
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    Boyd massacre (category Conflicts in 1809)
    The Boyd massacre occurred in December 1809 when Māori of Ngāti Pou from Whangaroa Harbour in northern New Zealand killed and ate between 66 and 70 European...
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    Alban, which was the former Royal Navy schooner HMS Alban that the Danes had captured on 12 September 1809. The Alban was under the command of Lieutenant...
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    HMS Hecate was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built by John King at Upnor and launched in 1809. After serving in the British Navy, essentially...
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    HMS Charybdis was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Mark Richards and John Davidson at Hythe, and launched in 1809. She captured two American...
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    HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley, converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport...
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  • Burnaby Greene left Cockatrice in February 1807, moving to take command of HMS Foxhound. In 1807 J. B. Balderston took command of Cockatrice. On 27 and 28 August...
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  • Admiral Gardner (1797 EIC ship) (category Maritime incidents in 1809)
    single-ship action with a French privateer. Admiral Gardner was wrecked in January 1809. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England. She was named...
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  • March 1809. After a further voyage to the Baltic, Constant was reassigned to Channel patrols. On 5 September 1810 she was in company with the 38-gun HMS Surveillante...
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  • HMS Dominica was the French privateer schooner J(T?)opo L'Oeil (aka Tape à l'Oeil or Tape à l'Oeuil or Tap à l'Oeil) that the British captured in 1807...
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    clasp "Basque Roads 1809". Two of Beagle's sister ships, Dotterel and Foxhound were also present at the Basque Roads. Later in 1809 Commander William Dolling...
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  • the British in 1808 she was added to the Royal Navy as HMS Salorman. She was wrecked in 1809. Søormen was built in Copenhagen to a design by Ernst Stibolt...
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  • Suriname to London. Augusta had also captured two other merchantmen that Foxhound had recaptured. Favorite sailed for the West Coast of Africa on 2 June...
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  • HMS Alcmene was a 32-gun Alcmene-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. This frigate served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under the...
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    Battle of the Basque Roads order of battle (category Conflicts in 1809)
    the Biscay coast of France. The battle, which lasted from 11 to 25 April 1809, was unusual in that it pitted a hastily assembled squadron of small and...
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  • February 1809 she ran across a British squadron composed of the frigates HMS Horatio and HMS Latona, the brig HMS Driver, and the schooner HMS Superieure...
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  • HMS Pike was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co...
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    HMS Primrose was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Thomas Nickells (or Nicholls), at Fowey and launched in 1807. Primrose was built at Fowey...
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  • HMS Harrier was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804. She took part in several notable actions before she was lost in March 1809, presumed foundered...
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    Boyd (1783 ship) (category Maritime incidents in 1809)
    again, but the Royal Navy recaptured her and returned her to her owners. In 1809 she transported convicts to New South Wales for the British government. After...
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  • HMS Defender was a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig built in Chester in 1804 and employed in the English Channel. On 14 December 1809, she was wrecked near...
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