HMS Ethalion (1797)
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HMS Ethalion was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Joseph Graham of Harwich and launched on 14 March 1797. In her brief career before she was wrecked in 1799
Ethalion (left) at the action of 16 October 1799
HMS Anson (1781)
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HMS Anson was a ship of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781. Originally a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, she fought at the Battle of the Saintes.
HMS Ethalion (1797)
…for any still surviving crew members the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "12th October 1798". On 2 February 1799, Ethalion was operating with Anson when together they captured a 14-gun privateer Bayonnaise cutter. She was the Boulonnoise, out of Dunkirk, and had been "greatly annoyed the trade in…
Painting of Anson by Thomas Luny
Anson at the Battle of Tory Island
HMS Arethusa and HMS Anson capture the Pomona off Havana, depicted by Thomas Whitcombe
The British capture of Curaçao in 1807