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Sir William Sidney Smith and the Brest Fleet’s Winter Cruise – January 1795

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...

Blanche v Pique – 5 January 1795

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...

The Battle of Genoa 13/14 March 1795

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...

Lively v Tourterelle – 13 March 1795

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...

The Navy Conveys Princess Caroline of Brunswick to England – March 1795

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...

Astraea v Gloire -10 April 1795

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...

The Boyne is destroyed by fire at Spithead – 1 May 1795

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...

The Capture of a Dutch East Indiaman Fleet – 14 June 1795

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...

The Cornwallis Retreat – 17 June 1795

by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 31, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

The Cornwallis Retreat – 17 June 1795   In early May 1795, the newly promoted Rear-Admiral Richard Bligh was released from imprisonment in Brest where he had been incarcerated since the capture of his command, the Alexander 74, in the previous year. A...

The Battle of Groix – 23 June 1795

by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 25, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

The Battle of Groix – 23 June 1795   On 12 June, Admiral Lord Bridport’s Channel Fleet of fourteen sail of the line, including eight three-deckers, five frigates, two fireships, a hospital ship, and a lugger, sailed from Spithead. Two of Bridport’s...

Dido and Lowestoffe v Minerve and Artemise – 24 June 1795

by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 19, 2021 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

Dido and Lowestoffe v Minerve and Artemise – 24 June 1795   The British frigates Dido 28, Captain George Towry, and Lowestoffe 32, Captain Robert Gambier Middleton, had been in passage for only one day from Minorca for the Hyères Islands, having been...

The Battle of the Hyeres Islands – 13 July 1795

by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2022 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

The Battle of the Hyeres Islands – 13 July 1795   Having made good their escape from the British Mediterranean fleet in March following the Battle of Genoa, the French Toulon Fleet was supplemented on 3 April by six sail of the line and three frigates from...

The Navy at the Capture of Malacca – 17 August 1795

by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 12, 2022 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

The Navy at the Capture of Malacca – 17 August 1795   Upon receiving intelligence of the newly formed Batavian Republic’s declaration of War against Britain in May 1795, the commander-in-chief in the East Indies, Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier, immediately took...

The Navy at the Capture of Trincomale – 26 August 1795

by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 8, 2022 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

The Navy at the Capture of Trincomale – 26 August 1795   On 21 July Commodore Peter Rainier, the commander-in-chief of the British Navy in the East Indies, sailed from Madras with his flagship Suffolk 74, Captain Robert Lambert, the Centurion 50, Captain...

The Court-Martial of Captain Walker of the Trusty – 26 September

by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 19, 2022 | 1795, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802

The Court-Martial of Captain Walker of the Trusty – 26 September   Throughout the summer of 1795, tensions increased in the Mediterranean as the allegiance of Spain to the coalition against France deteriorated in its resolve. The British government was...

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