HMS Bonne Citoyenne (1796)
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Bonne Citoyenne was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy launched in 1794, the name ship of a four-vessel class. She was part of the French fleet active in the Bay of Biscay and English Channel. The Royal Navy captured her in 1796, commissioning her as the sloop-of-war HMS Bonne Citoyenne.
HMS Bonne Citoyenne,in 1799 by John Thomas Serres
The captured Furieuse is taken in tow to Halifax, Nova Scotia by HMS Bonne Citoyenne, a print by Thomas Whitcombe
Constantinople. North view, taken from the Artillery Quay (called Tophana) with H.B.M's ships Tigre and Bonne Citoyenne under the command of Sir Sidney Smith, 1799
The Hornet blockading the Bonne Citoyenne
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
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The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was one of the opening battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), as part of the French Revolutionary Wars, where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a greatly superior Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley
Admiral Sir John Jervis
José de Córdoba
Battle off Cape St. Vincent, 1797 by William Adolphus Knell