HMS Amfitrite (1804)
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HMS Amfitrite was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had previously served with the Spanish Navy before she was captured during the Napoleonic Wars and commissioned into the Royal Navy
Blanche being wrecked on 4 March 1807
Blanche capturing Guerrière on 19 July 1806
French brig Néarque
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The French brig Néarque was an Abeille-class brig launched at Lorient in 1804. She made a voyage to the Caribbean in 1805. After the frigate HMS Niobe captured her in March 1806, the Royal Navy took h
HMS Amfitrite (1804)
…warships and privateers. On 28 March 1806, a French squadron consisting of the French frigates Guerrière, Revanche and Sirène, and the brig-corvette Néarque, all under the command of Amand Leduc, were dispatched from Lorient, with orders to attack and destroy British and Russian whalers in the Arctic, off…
1/36 scale model of Cygne, sister-ship of Néarque, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris