18 May

On 18 May 1803 the 36-gun frigate HMS Doris, under the command of Captain Richard Harrison Pearson, captured the French naval lugger Affronteur, off Ushant.

Benedict Arnold captures British sloop and renames her Enterprise, first of many famous ships with that name.

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