HMS Active (1799)
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HMS Active was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate launched on 14 December 1799 at Chatham Dockyard. Sir John Henslow designed her as an improvement on the Artois-class frigates. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous enemy vessels. Her crews participated in one campaign and three actions that would later qualify them for the Naval General Service Medal. She returned to service after the wars and finally was broken up in 1860.
Study of HMS Active at Portsmouth harbour, September 1822, by John Christian Schetky
Active at the attack on Boulogne October 1804
HMS Amphion, Cerberus, Volage, and Active attacking the United French and Italian Squadrons 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
Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet
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Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet, GCB was an English officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, as the Governor of Newfoundland during the War of 1812, and a member of the British House of Commons during his semi-retirement. Duckworth, a vicar's son, achieved much in a naval career that began at the age of 11.
Portrait by Sir William Beechey, 1810
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806 by Nicholas Pocock (1808). Duckworth's flagship, the 74-gun Superb, is shown firing at the French flagship, the 120-gun Imperial.
Duckworth's squadron forcing the Dardanelles
Duckworth depicted in his last year on a commemorative medal minted by his friends.