HMS Brunswick was a 74-gun third rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 April 1790 at Deptford. She was first commissioned in the following month under Sir Hyde Parker for the Spanish Armament but was not called into action. When the Russian Armament was resolved without conflict in August 1791, Brunswick took up service as a guardship in Portsmouth Harbour. She joined Richard Howe's Channel Fleet at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War and was present at the battle on Glorious First of June where she fought a hard action against the French 74-gun Vengeur du Peuple. Brunswick was in a small squadron under William Cornwallis that encountered a large French fleet in June 1795. The British ships successfully retreated into the Atlantic through a combination of good seamanship, good fortune and deceiving the enemy.
HMS Brunswick fighting the Achille and Vengeur du Peuple simultaneously
Brunswick (centre), following her engagement with Vengeur du Peuple (left) and Achille (right), on 1 June 1794
Cornwallis's Retreat, June 17, 1795, Thomas Luny
The 1807 bombardment of Copenhagen by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
The Glorious First of June, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, Philip James de Loutherbourg
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe; 1794 painting by John Singleton Copley
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, 1839 painting by Guérin
HMS Defence at the Battle of the Glorious 1 June 1794, Nicholas Pocock