HMS Briton was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy's Leda class. She was ordered on 28 September 1808 and her keel laid down at Chatham...
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of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Briton: HMS Briton (1812), a fifth rate 38 launched at Chatham 11 April 1812, 17 September 1814 sailed to Pitcairn...
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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...
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Lawrence in 1844, broken up 1859 HMS Leonidas 1807 – hulked as powder hulk at Sheerness in 1872, sold 1894 HMS Briton 1812 – hulked as convict ship at Portsmouth...
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1802-09: HMS Pomone, wrecked on The Needles in 1811. HMS Shannon, the victor over USS Chesapeake, off Boston, on 1 June 1813. HMS Leonidas HMS Briton HMS Tenedos...
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HMS Hamadryad in June 1810. In 1812, he served on HMS Briton and visited Pitcairn Island in 1814, where he met the last surviving mutineers from HMS Bounty...
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French frigate Junon (1786) (redirect from HMS Princess Charlotte (1799))
In 1812, Princess Charlotte was renamed HMS Andromache. On 11 December 1812, together with the frigate Briton, Andromache took the American brig Leader...
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April 1819, was assigned to HMS Vigo. On 2 December 1822 he was assigned shore duty at St Helena before joining HMS Briton and HMS Tartarus on the South American...
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Battle of Valparaíso (redirect from USS Essex vs HMS Phoebe)
Office packet Nocton on 12 December 1812 laden with £15,000 of specie. Nocton was sent home as a prize but recaptured by HMS Belvidera on 5 January. He took...
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George Seymour (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
the fifth-rate HMS Pallas under Admiral Lord Gambier at the Battle of the Basque Roads. He then saw active service during the War of 1812. Seymour became...
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1867. HMS Stag Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 17 October 1810 Laid down: January 1811 Launched: 26 September 1812 Completed: November 1812. Fate:...
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teacher of taxidermy in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was an influential Black Briton. Born into slavery on a wood plantation in Demerara, British Guiana (present-day...
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Napoleonic Wars (section War of 1812)
particular by Napoleon's assertion of control over Switzerland. Furthermore, Britons felt insulted when Napoleon stated that their country deserved no voice...
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military engagements of the Quasi-War, both Barbary Wars, and the War of 1812. As a senior officer in the young American navy, Rodgers played a major role...
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French frigate Surveillante (1802) (redirect from HMS Surveillante (1803))
January 1812 Surveillante, in company with HMS Sybille, Captain C. Upton, and HMS Spitfire, captured the American ship Zone. On 25 May 1812, HMS Surveillante...
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HMS Belle Poule was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate, formerly Belle Poule, a Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy that had been built by the Crucy...
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onwards by Berry to Rio de Janeiro, from where they returned to Sydney in May 1812 aboard Atalanta. Betsy Broughton married Charles Throsby, nephew of the explorer...
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schooner that the United States Navy used as a storeship during the War of 1812. The Navy sold her c.1818. The Navy purchased Tom Bowline in late 1814 at...
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later, on 10 December, HMS Briton and HMS Andromache captured Sans Souci, which had most of Frederick's crew aboard. On 19 December HMS Rolla recaptured Frederick...
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of Wellington. In the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons programme in 2002, Nelson was voted the ninth greatest Briton of all time. Aspects of Nelson's life and...
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original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2007. Herbert, Ian (29 June 2007). "Briton who charted Canada honoured at home". The Independent. Retrieved 12 January...
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Champlain. Renamed HMS Finch Joel Barlow | US | 3 July 1813 An American Letter of marque schooner bearing only two guns, captured by HMS Briton off the coast...
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Treaty of Ghent (category Aftermath of the War of 1812)
Treaty of Ghent (8 Stat. 218) was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. It took effect in February...
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Bellona: Bellona, originally True Briton (1775 ship), and previously John, had been launched in Liverpool in 1775. True Briton and John were slave ships, making...
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prison hulk from 1814 and broken up in 1816. HMS Briton 1841–1856 Portsmouth Briton was built in 1812, Chatham. HMS Canada 1810–1834 Chatham Canada was a 74-gun...
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Regent was launched at Calcutta in 1812 and made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as an "extra ship", that is under charter. She was...
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Arniston (East Indiaman) (section Voyages (1794–1812))
Cuffnells, Neptune, Perseverance, Royal Charlotte, Taunton Castle, and True Briton. HMS Athenienne provided the escort.[non-primary source needed] The fleet...
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crew abandoned her in the Atlantic in 1822. True Briton first entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1812 with John Kirby, master, Ridsdale & Co., owners, and...
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Royal Newfoundland Regiment (category Canadian military units and formations of the War of 1812)
ISBN 978-0-7735-3206-9. Parsons, David (2003). "Newfoundland and the Great". In Busch, Briton (ed.). Canada and the Great War: Western Front Association Papers. McGill-Queen's...
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HMS Royalist was launched in 1807. She captured many privateers and letters of marque, most French, but also some from Denmark and the United States....
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