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HMS Rapid was an Archer-class (1804 batch) gun-brig of 12 guns, launched in 1804. She took part in April 1808 in one action that in 1847 the Admiralty...

Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rapid: HMS Rapid (1804) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804 and sunk in 1808. HMS Rapide (1808 schooner) was a British...

Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe and was launched in 1804. She was built of fir, which made for more rapid construction at the expense of durability. Reindeer...

HMS Hirondelle was the French privateer Hirondelle that HMS Bittern captured in 1804. The Royal Navy took Hirondelle into service under her existing name...

purchased the Newcastle collier Ramillies in June 1804 and commissioned her as HMS Proselyte in September 1804, having converted her to a 28-gun sixth rate...

HMS Capelin was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner carrying four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich...

HMS Raven was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Perry, Wells and Green at Blackwall Yard and launched in 1804. Although she embodied some interesting...

HMS Espoir was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804. She served during the Napoleonic Wars, primarily in the Mediterranean,...

though she also sailed to the Baltic. She was sold to the government in 1810. HMS Hermes was launched as the mercantile Majestic at Whitby in 1801. The British...

HMS Swift was the whaler Pacific launched in 1802 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1804 on her return from the Galápagos Islands. She served briefly...

1804 HMS Resistance 1805 HMS Apollo 1805 HMS Hussar 1807 HMS Statira 1807 HMS Horatio 1807 HMS Spartan 1806 HMS Undaunted 1807 HMS Menelaus 1810 HMS Nisus...

The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher...

Deptford Royal Sovereign (1804) unarmed yacht launched at Deptford HMS Hebe (1804) 32-gun frigate launched at Deptford HMS Arrow (1805) 14-gun schooner...

promoted to lieutenant in 1804, sailing to the East Indies on HMS Victor and rapidly gaining promotion to post captain in the frigate HMS Fox. In 1811, Cochrane...

Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...

HMS Plantagenet was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule...

Griffin HMS Princess Mary (60 guns) HMS Medway (60 guns) HMS Exeter (60 guns) HMS York (60 guns) HMS Winchester (50 guns) HMS Harwich (50 guns) HMS Preston...

was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, fought on 14 February 1804, in which a large convoy of Honourable East India Company (HEIC) East Indiamen...

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...

peninsula was rapidly becoming useless. In June, the Agamemnon was sent back to Britain for repairs, and Nelson was appointed to the 74-gun HMS Captain. In...