Cléopâtre was a 32-gun Vénus class frigate of the French Navy. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and had a coppered hull. She was launched in 1781, and the British captured her in 1793. She then served the Royal Navy as HMS Oiseau until she was broken up in 1816.
Cléopâtre at Start Point, Devon in 1793
A plan of the Oiseau taken in 1793
Yuri Lisyansky
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Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky was an explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He served as a volunteer in the British Royal Navy and later headed the first Russian circumnavigation aboard the Neva. He was also among the early western explorers to visit Easter Island.
Lisyansky's grave
Lisyansky house museum by the Saint John the Evangelist Church