HMS Africa was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched by William Barnard at Barnard's Thames Yard in Deptford on 11 April 1781.
HMS Africa
HMS Conqueror towing Africa off the shoals at Trafalgar, three days after the battle, painting by James Wilson Carmichael
Constitution's escape from the British squadron after a chase of sixty hours, 1816
Admiral Sir Henry Digby GCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Born into a long-established naval family, his uncle was Admiral Robert Digby. Digby we
HMS Africa (1781)
ā¦reconfigured as a 64-gun ship of the line again by Thomas Pitcher at Northfleet between September 1804 and July 1805. She was recommissioned by Captain Henry Digby at the end of her conversion. Africa was present at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805; having been separated from the main British fleet beforeā¦
Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke, widow of Charles Nevison Howard, Viscount Andover