On this day.

[Coog]

27 May

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.

http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...the-Sémillante.

[Coog]

29 May

The Glorious First of June Part 2.

http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...of-June-Part-2


Frigate Alliance captures HMS Atalanta and Trepassy off Nova Scotia.

HMS Carysfort cruising the Eastern Atlantic for signs of a French convoy when on 29 May 1794 when lookouts sighted two sails which were soon revealed to be the 32-gun French frigate Castor towing a Dutch merchant ship.

http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?454-May-29th