HMS Alcmene (1794)
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HMS Alcmene was a 32-gun Alcmene-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. This frigate served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under the command of several notable officers. Alcmene was
Alcmene
Painting of Alcmene engaging Santa Brigida alongside Naiad and Triton by Thomas Whitcombe
Edward Riou
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Captain Edward Riou FRS was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars under several of the most distinguished naval officers of his age and won fame and honour for two incidents
HMS Alcmene (1794)
…to the Baltic with Sir Hyde Parker's expeditionary force in March 1801. She was present at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April that year, as part of Edward Riou's frigate squadron, and suffered five men killed and 19 wounded in the battle. In 1847, The Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General…
Portrait by Samuel Shelley, c. 1800
Portrait of Midshipman Edward Riou, 1776 by Daniel Gardner. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
Distressing situation of the Guardian sloop, Capt. Riou, after striking on a floating Island of ice, depiction of the event printed in 1809
Captain Edward Riou, unifinished watercolour, by John Jackson