• French corvette Esperance. The Royal Navy captured her in 1795 and took her into service as HMS Esperance. Thus, in her career, Esperance had changed hands...
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  • HMS Esperance, after espérance, the French term for 'hope': HMS Esperance (1626) was a sloop captured in 1626 and given away in 1632. HMS Esperance (1795)...
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  • Several vessels have been named Ellis: HMS Esperance (1795) was launched in America in 1781, and is first listed in Lloyd's Register in 1784 under the...
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  • privateer Esperance. She was captured in 1626 and released in 1630. English ship Hope (1652) was a 26-gun storeship purchased in 1652 and sold in 1657. HMS Hope (1665)...
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  • bankrupt. HMS Laurel was a 22-gun post ship, formerly the French corvette Jean Bart. She was captured in 1795 and sold in 1797 at Jamaica. HMS Laurel was...
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  • named Poisson Volant, recaptured from the French in 1797 by HMS Esperance, and sold in 1799. HMS Flying Fish (1803) was previously the schooner Poisson Volant...
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  • May 1796 by HMS Esperance and HMS Bonetta. Sailing from Aux Cayes to New York City, Poisson Volant was intercepted by HMS Esperance and HMS Bonetta and...
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    1795 were originally intended as a series of four, but by the time the first one had been launched in 1795, Rule had already drawn up plans for HMS Naiad...
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  • 1780. On 8 January 1795, while under the command of Captain Alexander John Ball she captured the French Republican warship Esperance on the North America...
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  • September 1795, HMS Success captured the brig Poisson Volant on the Jamaica station. On 4 May 1796 HMS Esperance was sailing in company with HMS Spencer...
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    her into Bordeaux. On 2 May 1795 Rear Admiral George Murray sent Captain Alexander Cochrane in Thetis, together with HMS Hussar, to intercept three French...
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  • high winds HMS Spencer (1800), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy HMS Spencer (1795), a ship that sailed with HMS Esperance Spencer (clothing)...
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    Espérance, returning from a raiding cruise in the Channel under the command of Captain François A. Dénian. A second British frigate, the 28-gun HMS Circe...
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    HMS Sprightly was a 10-gun cutter of the Royal Navy, built to a design by John Williams, and the name ship of her two-vessel class of cutters. She was...
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    Prévoyante into the Royal Navy as HMS Prevoyante. On 20 July, Hussar was in company with Thetis and HMS Esperance when they intercepted the American...
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  • HMS Spencer was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, formerly the civilian Sir Charles Grey. The Admiralty purchased her in 1795, after having hired...
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  • the background. Aquatint by Nicholas Pocock, 1801 French ship Espérance HMS Espoir and HMS Hope Roche, vol.1, p.183 Roche, vol.2, p.197 Roche, Jean-Michel...
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    Republican. On 8 January 1795, Argonaut captured the French Republican warship Esperance on the North America Station. Esperance was armed with 22 guns...
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    14-gun cutter, the Espérance, were returning from a cruise when they were spotted by Crescent. A second British frigate, the 28-gun HMS Circe, was becalmed...
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    The HMS Investigator Anchors are the two anchors that jettisoned from HMS Investigator on the morning of Saturday, 21 May 1803, by her commander, Matthew...
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  • HMS Venus, which had designed by F. af Chapman Arkhangel Mikhail 44 ("Архангел Михаил", 1791, A) – Served at the North Sea 1793, visited Britain 1795–1796...
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    August 1795, rewarded Rose's loyalty with the 16-gun HMS Esperance, and a promotion to Commander. At 05:00 on 4 May 1796, Esperance was cruising with HMS Spencer...
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    – renamed Formidable in May 1795, captured by the British in the Battle of Groix in June 1795 and added to the RN as HMS Belleisle, BU 1814. Droits de...
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    Genoa on 14 March 1795 and The Nile on 1 August 1798 under Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars. During the battle, she severely damaged HMS Majestic, causing...
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    October: The 68-gun ship was captured by the Royal Netherlands Navy. Espérance d'Angleterre ( French Navy): Battle of Vigo Bay, 23 October: The 70-gun...
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    captured by British Navy 1795, becoming HMS Virginie. Courageuse, (launched 1794 at Brest) – renamed Justice in April 1795 – captured by British Navy...
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    Admiralty Hydrographic Service, 1795–1919. H.M. Stationery Office. Retrieved 6 April 2013. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Waterwitch (ship, 1878)...
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    d'Entrecasteaux (1737–1793) (Recherche) and Jean-Michel de Kermadec (1748–1793) (Espérance) Naturalists: Jacques-Julien de Labillardière (1755–1834), Claude Riche...
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  • French warships built 1794-1796 HMS Bonne Citoyenne (1796), a 20-gun corvette originally of the French Navy Bonne-Espérance (disambiguation) Bonne Femme...
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    HMS Lynx was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Gravesend. In 1795 she was the cause of an international...
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