Action of 13 January 1797
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The action of 13 January 1797 was a minor naval battle fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the acti
Battle between the French warship Droits de l'Homme and the frigates HMS Amazon and Indefatigable, 13 & 14 January 1797 (1853)
Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew by Thomas Lawrence, 1797
Menhir commemorating the wreck of Droits de l'Homme (shown in the picture as damaged by storm with the topmost portion having broken off)
Engraving of Indefatigable (left) sailing past a wrecked Droits de l'Homme
HMS Indefatigable (1784)
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HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built as a ship-of-the-line, but most of her active s
Action of 13 January 1797
…coordination and violent weather, eventually being compelled to return to France without landing a single soldier. Two British frigates, the 44-gun HMS Indefatigable and the 36-gun HMS Amazon, had been ordered to patrol the seas off Ushant in an attempt to intercept the returning French force and sighted the Droits…
Indefatigable (left) at the action of 21 April 1796
Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew by Thomas Lawrence, 1797.
Virginie fighting HMS Indefatigable