HMS Active (1799)
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HMS Active was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched on 14 December 1799 at Chatham Dockyard. Sir John Henslow designed her as an improvement on the Artois-class frigates. She served
1822 study of Active at Portsmouth Harbour by John Christian Schetky
Active at the attack on Boulogne October 1804
Active (second from right) at the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic, on 13 March 1811
Embarkation of Artillery on board the Argo, at Balaclava, for England in 1856
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 P
HMS Active (1799)
…her home port of Cayenne. At some point Active captured the Prussian vessels Ida Margaretta, Anna Dorothea, and Norberg. On 12 March 1807, Active and Endymion captured the Danish vessel Henrie and Maria. The prize money was remitted from Malta. In 1807, Active returned to the Mediterranean. An initial assignment…
1807 painting of Endymion off Great Mewstone
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.