• 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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  • borne the name HMS Pike, after the Northern pike, a species of fish: HMS Pike (1804) was a 4-gun Ballahoo-class schooner launched in 1804 and captured by...
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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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  • HMS Jason was a 32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804 at Woolwich. She was broken up in 1815. Jason entered service...
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  • HMS Herring 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...
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  • HMS Daring was a 12-gun gun-brig of the Archer class of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1804 and served in the Channel and North Sea, capturing...
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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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    HMS Piercer was a Royal Navy Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804. She served against the French, Danes and Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars and was assigned...
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    HMS Moselle was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804. She served during the Napoleonic Wars in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean...
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    on the subsequent Curieux-class brigs started in 1803. On 4 February 1804, HMS Centaur sent four boats and 72 men under Lieutenant Robert Carthew Reynolds...
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  • captured in April 1806. Sorcière was a felucca-rigged French privateer that HMS Medusa encountered on 6 December 1803 in the Strait of Gibraltar and pursued...
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  • Caroline was a French privateer commissioned in Saint-Malo in 1804. She served in the Indian Ocean, based at Île de France (now Mauritius). As she was...
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    Brunswick 3 Aug: HMS Lark 27 Aug: Bellona 31 Aug: HMS Foxhound August (unknown date): HMS Dominica, HMS Pike 13 Sep: Shah Ardaseer 22 Sep: HMS Curieux 26 Oct:...
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  • Britain the Admiralty purchased her in June 1804 and converted her to a 44-gun fifth rate with the name HMS Mediator. The Navy converted her to a storeship...
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  • co-ordinated Sea Fencible units along the English and Irish coasts. From 1804 on they were supported by a network of Martello towers. Popham's Sea Fencible...
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    service in the First Barbary War. On 22 June 1807 she was fired upon by HMS Leopard of the Royal Navy for refusing to allow a search for deserters. The...
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    HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary...
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    Knopwood, Robert. "Robert Knopwood – Journals on board H.M.S. Resolution and H.M.S. Calcutta, 1801–1804". Tipping, p. 61. Tipping, p.106. Tipping, p. 106....
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    early 18th century. These were originally of non-uniform design but the 1804 Pattern, the first Navy-issue standard cutlass, was introduced at the start...
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    In 1804 she received a new master, "Litson". He was sailing her to Grenada when she lost a rudder. She was part of a convoy under the escort of HMS Peterel...
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  • HMS Alphea was built of Bermudan pencil cedar as a cutter and launched in 1804. Later she was converted to a schooner. She captured a number of small prizes...
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  • HMS Cerbere was the French naval brig Cerbère, ex-Chalier, which the British captured in 1800. She was wrecked in 1804. Chalier (Cerbère) was the name...
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  • The French brig Pandour was a brig of the French Navy launched in 1804 that the Royal Navy captured in 1806. In 1807 she became a whaler in the South Seas...
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    Point, consisted of the ships of the line HMS Ramillies and HMS Valiant along with the frigates HMS Acasta and HMS Orpheus. Realizing his only chance for...
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    Haitian Revolution (category 1804 in the Caribbean)
    sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804 with the former colony's independence. It involved black, biracial, French...
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  • HMS Morne Fortunee was the French privateer Regulus that British Royal Navy captured in 1804. In 1806 the Royal Navy commissioned her. She captured some...
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    1804, and a further six on 11 December 1805. A number of different builders in different yards built them, with all the first batch launching in 1804...
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    Edward Pellew aboard HMS Indefatigable. From May 1804 he served in the West Indies, returning as Sir Edward Pellew's flag captain on HMS Caledonia eight years...
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    HMS Polyphemus, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 April 1782 at Sheerness. She participated in the 1801 Battle of...
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  • marque on 26 January 1804. He sailed from Portsmouth on 20 March 1804, bound for Madras and Bengal in a convoy under the escort of HMS Lapwing The other...
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