Scipion was a 74-gun French ship of the line, built at Lorient to a design by Jacques Noel Sane. She was laid down as Orient in late 1798, and renamed Scipion in 1801. She was first commissioned in 18
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Scipion (1801), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
Blockade of Toulon, 1810-1814: Pellew's action, 5 November 1813, by Thomas Luny
HMS Aeolus was a 32-gun Amphion-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1801 and served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812.
The Battle of Cape Ortegal by Thomas Whitcombe
The British squadron, including Aeolus, pursue USS Constitution in July 1812
A contemporary engraving of the escape, showing from R to L, Africa, Constitution, Shannon, Aeolus, Guerrière, and Belvidera.