HMS Boadicea (1797)
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HMS Boadicea was a frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the Channel and in the East Indies during which service she captured many prizes. She participated in one action for which the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal. She was broken up in 1858.
Boadicea leaving Brest during the blockade in 1799, signals a repeating frigate (in the foreground) of the number of French and Spanish ships in the harbour, by John Thomas Serres
The gallant encounter between Boadicea and two French warships Le Duquay-Trouin and Guerriére on 31 August 1803
A view showing Boadicea attacking Saint Paul's Island 21 September 1809. The advanced British Frigate, is the Sirius, Capt. Pym, raking the French frigate La Caroline.
Richard Goodwin Keats
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Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats GCB was a British naval officer who fought throughout the American Revolution, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland from 1813 to 1816. In 1821 he was made Governor of Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, London. Keats held the post until his death at Greenwich in 1834. Keats is remembered as a capable and well respected officer. His actions at the Battle of Algeciras Bay became legendary.
Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats (1757–1834) © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Battle of San Domingo
Memorial to Admiral Keats, Greenwich Hospital Chapel