HMS Arethusa (1781)
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HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781. She served in three wars and made a number of notable captures before she was broken up in 1815.
Anson (left) and Arethusa (centre) capture Pomona in 1806
Arethusa (here on the far right at Spithead) witnessed the destruction of Boyne by an accidental fire, 1 May 1795
The capture of Curaçao in 1807, depicted by Thomas Whitcombe
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
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Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. His younger brother Israel Pellew also pursued a naval career.
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, portrait by James Northcote, 1804
Sir Edward Pellew by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1797
Engraving of Edward Pellew, Lord Exmouth
Painting of the Bombardment of Algiers by George Chambers Sr.