by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 9, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
Sir William Sidney Smith and the Brest Fleet’s Winter Cruise – January 1795 On Christmas Eve 1794, after several false starts, the Brest fleet of thirty-five sail of the line, thirteen frigates and sixteen smaller men of war under the command of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 26, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
Blanche v Pique – 5 January 1795 Having undergone a refit at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the late summer of 1794, the frigate Blanche 32, Captain Robert Faulknor, returned to her station in the Leeward Islands. Here she was ordered to cruise off the French...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 17, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
The Battle of Genoa 13/14 March 1795 On 3 March, the Toulon fleet under Rear-Admiral Pierre Martin, consisting of the flagship Sans Culotte 120, three sail of 80 guns, and eleven of 74, accompanied by six frigates and five thousand troops, put to sea. Adhering...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 1, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
Lively v Tourterelle – 13 March 1795 The command of the new eighteen-pounder frigate Lively 32 was one that was coveted by many officers, and it was to the good fortune of Commander George Burlton that he was able to hold it in an acting capacity for...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 22, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
The Navy Conveys Princess Caroline of Brunswick to England – March 1795 Captain John Willett Payne had long been a friend and confidant of George, the Prince of Wales, enjoying riotous times with him throughout the 1780’s and earning the dubious honour of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 18, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
Astraea v Gloire -10 April 1795 On the afternoon of 17 March 1795, a squadron of five sail of the line and three frigates under the command of Rear-Admiral John Colpoys got under way from Portsmouth and dropped down to St. Helens, prior to departing for a...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 7, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
The Boyne is destroyed by fire at Spithead – 1 May 1795 At 11 a.m. on the gloriously sunny spring morning of 1 May 1795, a group of soldiers from the 86th Regiment, acting as the marines aboard the Boyne 98 at her Spithead anchorage, were engaged in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 28, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
The Capture of a Dutch East Indiaman Fleet – 14 June 1795 On 25 May 1795 the Sceptre 64, Captain William Essington, arrived at St. Helena from England in order to convoy home the East India Company trade. She brought with her news that the French invasion...
