HMS Endymion (1797)
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HMS Endymion was a 40-gun fifth rate that served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812 and during the First Opium War. She was built to the lines of the French prize P
1807 painting of Endymion off Great Mewstone
Sketch of Rockall by T. Harvey, in 1810
Basil Hall landing on Rockall in 1811
USS President (left foreground) having surrendered, HMS Endymion (right foreground) is shown without her fore topmast, due to damage she sustained during her duel with the American ship.
Rockall
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Rockall is a 17.15-metre-high, uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is 301 kilometres west of Soay, St Kilda, Scotland; 423 kilometres north-west of Tory Island, Ireland; and 70
HMS Endymion (1797)
…took a number of French privateers. In August 1810, Endymion, in company with HMS Princess Charlotte, sailed to the then little-known remote islet of Rockall. T. Harvey, her master under Captain Thomas Bladen Capel, plotted its position to , around 7 miles (11 km) north-east its true position. John Purdy's…
Rockall's south and east faces, November 2008
Rockall – Nautical chart – Atlantic Sea Pilot, 1884
Lieutenant Commander Desmond Scott hoists the Union Flag in 1955