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Sloop vs Xebec Frigate
The Action of 6 May 1801 was a minor naval engagement between the 32-gun xebec-frigate El Gamo of the Spanish Navy under the command of Don Francisco de Torris and the much smaller 14-gun brig HMS Speedy under the command of Thomas, Lord Cochrane.
Great Britain
14-gun brig-sloop - HMS Speedy
Spain
32-gun xebec-frigate - El Gammo
For further details:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb...._III_P_144.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_6_May_1801
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Cutter vs Brig-Sloop
On this day 7 May 1779 USS Providence captured the brig HMS Diligent, 12 guns, off Sandy Hook. Providence was armed with 12 × 4-pounder guns and 14 × railside swivel guns.
United States
12-gun cutter - USS Providence
Great Britain
12-gun brig-sloop - HMS Diligent
For further details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Providence_(1775)
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Cutting Out Action
On the 8th of May 1807, boats from the 22-gun Laurel class sixth-rate post ship HMS Comus, cut out the Spanish San Pedro de Apostol from the harbor at Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.
Great Britain
22-gun corvette - HMS Comus
Ship's boats
Spain
Felucca merchantman
Shore batteries
For further details:
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...out-expedition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Comus_(1806)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_IV_P_324.htm
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Schooner vs Sloop
The Danish schooner The Alban was under the command of Lieutenant Thøger Emil Rosenørn when she encountered HMS Rifleman on 11 May 1811 near the Shetland Islands. HMS Rifleman chased The Alban for twelve hours before she succeeded in capturing the Dane.
Denmark
12-gun schooner - The Alban
Great Britain
18-gun brig-sloop - HMS Rifleman
For further details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Alban_(1806)
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Frigate vs Frigate
On the 19th of May 1808, the HMS Virginie captured the Dutch frigate Guelderland.
Great Britain
38-gun frigate - HMS Virginie
Netherlands
36-gun frigate - Guelderland
For further details:
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...Dutch-exchange
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_V/P_036.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=s78...erland&f=false
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Ship of the Line vs Frigate Squadron With Shore Batteries
The Action of 22 May 1812 took place off Groix when a small French two-frigate squadron comprising Ariane and Andromaque, returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, met the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying the slip to Lorient through the British blockade.
Great Britain
74-gun ship of the line - HMS Northumberland
12-gun brig-sloop - HMS Growler
France
40-gun frigate - Ariane
40-gun frigate - Andromaque
16-gun brig-sloop - Mameluck
Shore batteries
For further details:
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...shallow-waters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_22_May_1812
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb...._VI/P_048.html
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Sloop vs Sloop
On 26 May 1811, HMS Alacrity under Commander Nisbit Palmer, an 18-gun Cruizer class brig sloop, encountered the French brig-of-war Abeille, of twenty 24-pounder carronades, off Bastia, Corsica.
France
18-gun brig-sloop - Abeille
Great Britain
18-gun brig-sloop - HMS Alacrity
For further details:
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...his-Day-26-May
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_V/P_364.html
http://threedecks.org/index.php?disp..._ship&id=13209
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Alacrity_(1806)
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Frigates vs Frigates
On the 27th of May 1793, an engagement took place between the HMS Venus and the Sémillante, 375 nuatical miles off the west coast of Spain.
Great Britain
32-gun frigate - HMS Venus
36-gun frigate - HMS Nymphe (Optional)
France
36-gun frigate - Sémillante
32-gun frigate - Cléopâtre (Optional)
For further details:
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...the-Sémillante
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_I/P_093.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_18_June_1793
Note - HMS Nymphe and Cléopâtre are listed as optional as they became involved after primary engagement.
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Frigate vs Sloops
USS Alliance, becalmed, engaged the Britsh sloops HMS Atalanta and HMS Trepassey.
United States
36-gun frigate - USS Alliance
Great Britain
14-gun ship-sloop - HMS Atalanta
14-gun brig sloop - HMS Trepassey
For further details:
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?454-May-29th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alliance_(1778)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Atalanta_(1775)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Trepassey_(1779)
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Frigate vs Frigate
The 28-gun HMS Carysfort under Captain Francis Laforey was cruising the Eastern Atlantic for signs of a French convoy when on 29 May 1794 lookouts sighted two sails ahead. Laforey immediately advanced on the strange sails, which were soon revealed to be the 32-gun French frigate Castor, Captain L'Huillier in command, towing a Dutch merchant ship.
Great Britain
28-gun frigate - HMS Carysfort
France
32-gun frigate - Castor
Merchant brig
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate...of_29_May_1794
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Carysfort_(1766)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Castor_(1785)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_I/P_205.html
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Frigate vs Frigate
The Capture of USS Chesapeake, or the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake, as part of the War of 1812.
Great Britain
38-gun frigate - HMS Shannon
United States
38-gun frigate - USS Chesapeake
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_USS_Chesapeake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chesapeake_(1799)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Shannon_(1806)
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Frigate vs Frigate
At 1030 on 1 June 1780, USS Trumbull's masthead lookout sighted a sail to windward what soon proved to be the British 32-gun letter-of-marque Watt.
United States
28-gun frigate - USS Trumbull
Great Britain
32-gun frigate - Letter-of-marque Watt
For further details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Trumbull_(1776)
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Frigates vs Frigates and Corvette
On 8 June the French frigate Tribune, and her remaining two companions, the frigate Tamise and the corvette Legere, were sailing off the south coast of Ireland. Tribune was under the command of Commodore John Moulston, an American who had served in the French Navy for 16 years. At daybreak the British frigates Unicorn and Santa Margarita spotted the three French vessels and proceeded to chase them.
France
36-gun frigate - Tribune
32-gun frigate - Tamise
18-gun corvette - Legere
Great Britain
32-gun frigate - HMS Unicorn
36-gun frigate - HMS Santa Margarita
For further details:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_I/P_328.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Unicorn_(1794)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Santa_Margarita_(1779)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tribune_(1796)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Thames_(1758)
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Figate vs Frigate
On 13 June 1796, about 12 leagues south of Cape Clear, Ireland, the 36-gun frigate HMS Dryad, under the command of Captain Lord Amelius Beauclerk, captured the 38-gun French frigate Proserpine following a relatively brief chase but a bitter action.
Great Britain
36-gun frigate - HMS Dryad
France
38-gun frigate - Proserpine
For further details:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_I/P_331.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dryad_(1795)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...serpine_(1785)
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Frigate vs Frigate
On 18 June 1793, as the 32-gun French frigate Cléopâtre sailed off Guernsey under Lieutenant de vaisseau Mullon, she encountered HMS Nymphe, under Captain Edward Pellew.
Great Britain
36-gun frigate - HMS Nymphe
France
32-gun frigate - Cléopâtre
For further details:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_I/P_096.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nymphe_(1780)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...%A9op%C3%A2tre
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Sloop vs Sloop
On 21 June 1804 HMS Hippomenes engaged a Guadeloupe privateer, the Buonaparte.
Great Britain
18-gun ship-sloop - HMS Hippomenes
France
18-gun brig-sloop - privateer Buonaparte
For further details:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb...._III_P_268.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hippomenes_(1803)
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Frigates vs Frigates
While off Minorca on 24 June 1795 HMS Lowestoffe, a 32-gun frigate under Captain Robert Middleton, and HMS Dido, a 28-gun Frigate under Captain George Henry Towry, encountered two French frigates, the 40-gun Minerve and the 32-gun Artémise.
Great Britain
32-gun frigate - HMS Lowestoffe
28-gun frigate - HMS Dido
France
40-gun frigate - Minerve
32-gun frigate - Artémise
For further details:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....l_I/P_289.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lowestoffe_(1761)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dido_(1784)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...Minerve_(1794)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...%A9mise_(1794)
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Sloop vs Sloop
The ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp engaged the Cruizer class brig-sloop HMS Reindeer in one of the hardest-fought naval actions in the War of 1812.
United States
22-gun ship-sloop - USS Wasp
Great Britain
18-gun brig-sloop - HMS Reindeer
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_HMS_Reindeer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(1814)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Reindeer_(1804)
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Ship vs Schooner
The U.S. warship, Delaware, commanded by Capt. Stephen Decatur, Sr., captured a French privateer, La Croyable, off Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, on 7 July 1798.
United States
20-gun ship - USS Delaware
France
14-gun schooner - La Croyable
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Delaware_(1798)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Croyable
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Frigate vs Frigate, Corvette, and Sloops
On the 19th of July 1805, the French frigate Topaze (40), and corvettes Départment des Landes (22), Torche (18), and Faune (16) captured the HMS Blanche off the coast of Puerto Rico. The Blanche was subsequently burned.
Great Britain
38-gun frigate - HMS Blanche
France
40-gun frigate - Topaze
22-gun corvette - Départment des Landes
18-gun sloop - Torche
16-gun sloop - Faune
For further details:
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...f-two-Blanches
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_IV_P_139.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_..._Topaze_(1805)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torche_(1795)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...e_Faune_(1804)
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Frigate vs Frigate
On the 19th of July 1806, the newly named HMS Blanche, formally the Spanish ship Amfitrite, captured the Guerrière.
France
38-gun frigate - Guerrière
Great Britain
38-gun frigate - HMS Blanche
For further details:
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_IV_P_249.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Amfitrite_(1804)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Guerriere_(1806)
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Frigate vs Frigate
On the 29th of July 1782, the HMS Santa Margarita, a 36-gun fifth rate frigate under the command of Captain Elliot Salter, captured the 36-gun Amazone off Cape Henry, Virginia.
Great Britain
36-gun frigate - HMS Santa Margarita
France
36-gun frigate - Amazone
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Santa_Margarita_(1779)
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Frigate vs Frigate
On the 31st of July 1793, the HMS Boston, under the command of Captain George Courtenay, and the French Embuscade, under the command of Captain Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart, fought a duel of the coast of New Jersey.
France
32-gun frigate - Embuscade
Great Britain
32-gun frigate - HMS Boston
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_31_July_1793
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_I/P_099.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Boston_(1762)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...buscade_(1790)
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Schooner vs Polacca
The Action of 1 August 1801 was a single-ship action of the First Barbary War fought between the American schooner USS Enterprise and the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli off the coast of modern-day Libya.
United States
12-gun schooner - USS Enterprise
Tripoli
14-gun polacca - Tripoli
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_1_August_1801
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(1799)
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Frigate Squadron vs Frigate
At 14:30 on 3 August 1801, a squadron of patrolling frigates, HMS Phoenix, HMS Pomone, and HMS Pearl engaged the French frigate Carrère, which was escorting a small convoy from Porto Ercole to Porto Longone.
Great Britain
36-gun frigate - HMS Phoenix
40-gun frigate - HMS Pomone
32-gun frigate - HMS Pearl
France
38-gun frigate - Carrère
Merchanmen
For further details:
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi..._III_P_096.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Phoenix_(1783)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pomone_(1794)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Carrere_(1801)
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Schooner vs Schooner
The Capture of HMS Dominica was a notable single-ship action that occurred on 5 August 1813 off the Bermudas during the War of 1812. American privateer Decatur and the Royal Navy warship Dominica engaged in a fierce contest that ended with the capture of the British ship after a long battle.
Great Britain
18-gun schooner - HMS Dominica
Merchantman
United States
7-gun schooner - Privateer Decatur
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_HMS_Dominica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_(privateer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dominica_(1810)
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Sloop vs Frigate
On 7 August HMS Espoir, with fourteen 6-pounder guns and gave her a crew of 80 men, was escorting the Oran convoy when she encountered the Genoese pirate, the 26-gun Liguria, some three leagues off Cape Windmill.
Great Britain
14-gun brig-sloop - HMS Espoir
Merchantmen
Genoese Pirate
26-gun frigate - Liguria
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Espoir_(1797)
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi..._II/P_227.html
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Frigate vs Frigate
On 10 August 1805 the 36-gun frigate HMS Phoenix, under the command of Captain Thomas Baker, came across the 40-gun French frigate Didon off Cape Finisterre.
France
40-gun frigate - Didon
Great Britain
36-gun frigate - HMS Phoenix
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Phoenix_(1783)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Didon_(1805)
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_IV_P_163.htm
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Frigate vs Frigate
On 12 August 1782, the 28-gun frigate HMS Coventry, under the command of Captain Andrew Mitchell. encountered the 32-gun French frigate Bellone off Friars Hood, Ceylon.
Great Britain
28-gun frigate - HMS Coventry
France
32-gun frigate - Bellone
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Coventry_(1757)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...Bellone_(1779)
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Ship of the Line and Frigate vs Ship of the Line and Frigates
On the 13th of August 1761, the HMS Bellona (74), accompanied by the HMS Brilliant (36), pursued and engaged the French Courageux (74) and two frigates. Though the French frigates eventually escaped fighting the Brilliant, the Courageux struck her colors to the Bellona.
Great Britain
74-gun ship of the line - HMS Bellona
36-gun frigate - HMS Brilliant
France
74-gun ship of the line - Courageux
26-gun frigate - Hermione
32-gun frigate - Malicieuse
For further details:
https://archive.org/stream/battlesbr.../n257/mode/2up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bellona_(1760)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...urageux_(1753)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Brilliant_(1757)
http://threedecks.org/index.php?disp..._ship&id=12538
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._sail_frigates
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Sloop vs Sloop
On 14 August 1813, USS Argus, under the command of Master Commandant William Henry Allen, and HMS Pelican, under the command of Commander John Fordyce Maple, engaged in battle.
Great Britain
18-gun brig-sloop - HMS Pelican
United States
16-gun brig-sloop - USS Argus
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Argus_(1803)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pelican_(1812)
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Corvette vs Frigate
On 15 August 1807 HMS Comus encountered the Danish frigate Frederiksværn (Fredrickscoarn in British usage).
Great Britain
22-gun corvette - HMS Comus
Denmark
32-gun frigate - Frederiksværn
For further details:
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_IV_P_287.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Comus_(1806)
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Sloop vs Sloop
On 17 August 1803 at 1 p.m. the 18-gun brig-sloop HMS Racoon encountered the French navy's brig Mutine, of eighteen 18-pounder guns.
Great Britain
18-gun brig-sloop - HMS Racoon
France
18-gun brig sloop - Mutine
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Racoon_(1795)
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi..._III_P_194.htm
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Frigate vs Ship of the Line
The Action of 18 August 1798 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought between the British fourth rate ship HMS Leander and the French ship of the line Généreux.
France
74-gun ship of the line - Généreux
Great Britain
50-gun frigate - HMS Leander
For more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_18_August_1798
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Leander_(1780)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...%A9n%C3%A9reux
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Frigate vs Frigate
The USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere, was a single ship action between the two ships during the War of 1812, approximately 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
United States
44-gun frigate - USS Constitution
Great Britain
38-gun frigate - HMS Guerriere
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Con..._HMS_Guerriere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Guerriere_(1806)
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Frigate vs Frigate
On 20 August 1800 the frigate HMS Seine, under the command of Captain David Milne, attacked the French frigate Vengeance in the Mona Passage.
France
38-gun frigate - Vengeance
Great Britain
38-gun frigate - HMS Seine
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Seine_(1798)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vengeance_(1800)
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Frigate Squadron vs Frigate Squadron
The Battle of Grand Port was a naval battle between squadrons of frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy. The battle was fought during 20–27 August 1810 over possession of the harbour of Grand Port on Isle de France (now Mauritius) during the Napoleonic Wars. The British squadron of four frigates sought to blockade the port to prevent its use by the French through the capture of the fortified Île de la Passe at its entrance.
Great Britain
36-gun frigate - HMS Sirius
36-gun frigate - HMS Iphigenia
32-gun frigate - HMS Magicienne
32-gun frigate - HMS Nereide
France
44-gun frigate - Bellone
48-gun frigate - Minerve
20-gun corvette - Victor
26-gun East Indiaman - Windham
East Indiaman - Ceylon
Shore batteries
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Port
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_Hi...l_V/P_273.html
https://archive.org/stream/battlesof...e/328/mode/2up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sirius_(1797)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Iphigenia_(1808)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...icienne_(1778)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nereide_(1779)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...Bellone_(1807)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...Minerve_(1809)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victor_(1808)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean...Lautaro_(1818)
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whow, that`s stuff for some years...great :thumbsup:
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Sloop vs Sloop
The Sinking of HMS Avon was a single ship action fought during the War of 1812, and took place on 1 September 1814. In the battle, the ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp forced the Cruizer class brig-sloop HMS Avon to surrender.
United States
22-gun ship-sloop - USS Wasp
Great Britain
18-gun brig-sloop - HMS Avon
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_HMS_Avon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(1814)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Avon_(1805)
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w3/wasp-v.htm
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Sloop vs Sloop
On 5 September 1813, the USS Enterprise of 16 guns with 102 men sighted HMS Boxer of 14 guns with 66 men off Pemaquid Point, Maine, and closed on the enemy brig. Interestingly, the Boxer was in the area having for a fee escorted an American merchantman with Swedish papers from New Brunswick to the Kennebec River. British Captain Samuel Blyth prepared for a fight to the finish, nailing one's flag to the foremast. In the Enterprise, Lieutenant William Burrows demonstrated similar resolve.
Great Britain
12-gun brig-sloop - HMS Boxer
United States
12-gun brig-sloop - USS Enterprise
For further details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_HMS_Boxer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(1799)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Boxer_(1812)