HMS Aurora (1777)
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HMS Aurora was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, that saw service during the American and French Revolutionary wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. Designed to carry a complement of 200 men, she was armed with a main battery of twenty-four 9-pound guns.
Plan of an Enterprise-class frigate, similar to Aurora
Woolwich dockyard, painted in 1790, thirteen years after HMS Aurora was launched there
Henry Digby, captain of Aurora between January 1797 and November 1798
The Aurora passing the Marianne just previous to capturing her, from a sketch by John Theophilus Lee
Henry Digby (Royal Navy officer)
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Admiral Sir Henry Digby GCB was a senior British naval officer, who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy. Born into a long-established naval family, his uncle was the famous Admiral Robert Digby, Henry went to sea at the end of the American Revolutionary War aged fourteen.
Henry Digby (Royal Navy officer)
Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke, widow of Charles Nevison Howard, Viscount Andover