French frigate Armide (1804)
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Armide was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class, and launched in 1804 at Rochefort. She served briefly in the French Navy before the Royal Navy captured her in 1806. She went on to serve in the Royal Navy until 1815 when she was broken up.
The action of September 1805 in which the French captured HMS Calcutta, by Thomas Whitcombe
Sir Samuel Hood's engagement with the French Squadron off Rochefort, 25 September 1806, the Monarch Capt. Richard Lee, engaging La Minerve, L'Armide, & La Glore
HMS Endymion (1797)
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HMS Endymion was a 40-gun fifth rate that served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812 and during the First Opium War. She was built to the lines of the French prize Pomone captured in 1794. Due to her exceptional handling and sailing properties, the Severn-class frigates were built to her lines, although the gunports were rearranged to mount an extra pair of guns per side, the ships were made of softwood and were not built until nearly the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
HMS Endymion (right) exchanges broadsides with USS President (left)
Sketch of Rockall by T. Harvey, in 1810
Basil Hall landing on Rockall in 1811
USS President (left foreground) having surrendered, HMS Endymion (right foreground) is shown without her fore topmast, due to damage she sustained during her duel with the American ship.