Alexander Cochrane
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Admiral of the Blue Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane was a senior Royal Navy commander during the Napoleonic Wars and achieved the rank of admiral.
Alexander Cochrane
Admiral Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane by Robert Field
HMS Ajax (1798)
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HMS Ajax was an Ajax-class 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She was built by John Randall & Co of Rotherhithe and launched on the Thames on 3 March 1798. Ajax participated in the Egyptian operation of 1801, the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805 and the Battle of Trafalgar, before she was lost to a disastrous fire in 1807 during the Dardanelles Operation.
Watercolour of HMS Ajax, in the collections of the National Maritime Museum; no artist or date given
Battle of Cape Finisterre, by William Anderson, c.1810
Duckworth's squadron forcing the Dardanelles