On This day - December 9th

[David Manley]

1798 - HMS Boadicia captured the French privateer Invincible Bonaparte 500 miles west of Ushant (if ever a name tempted fate the privateer's was it :) )

1809 - HMS Redpole captured the French privateer Rodeur off Beachy Head

[csadn]

1798 - HMS Boadicia captured the French privateer Invincible Bonaparte 500 miles west of Ushant (if ever a name tempted fate the privateer's was it :) )

This is why, some years later, Adolf Hitler forbade any ship to carry the name "Hitler", or "Deutschland"; thus forcing the renaming of one of the armored cruisers.