HMS Adamant (1780)
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HMS Adamant was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars in a
Adamant (second from left) at the Battle of Port Louis
The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797 (Thomas Whitcombe, 1798)
Painting of the Battle of Port Louis by Auguste Étienne François Mayer
French frigate Preneuse
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Preneuse was a 44-gun Preneuse-class frigate of the French Navy. The lead ship of her class, she was designed by the shipwright Raymond-Antoine Haran and built at Rochefort. During the French Revoluti
HMS Adamant (1780)
…moved to the English Channel, and then the Indian Ocean via the Cape of Good Hope. Here she took part in the destruction of the French commerce raider Preneuse, and in her later years captured a number of privateers. She became a receiving ship and flagship of a port admiral during the last years of the…
Preneuse (first from right) at the Battle of Port Louis