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HMS Juno (1780)
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HMS Juno was a Royal Navy 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate. This frigate served during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Juno
Juno
Juno, escaping from the Inner Harbour of Toulon, on the Night of 11 January 1794, an aquatint by Robert Dodd
Juno, escaping from the Inner Harbour of Toulon, on the Night of 11 January 1794, an aquatint by Robert Dodd
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
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Admiral of the Red Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of An
HMS Juno (1780)
…Hood was then transferred to the Mediterranean in May 1793. Juno was at Toulon during its period of British control under Samuel Hood, Juno's captain's cousin once removed. Unaware that Toulon had fallen to French republican forces, and desiring to deliver 107 Maltese and 46 Marines…
Portrait by James Northcote, 1784
Portrait by James Northcote, 1784
The Battle of the Chesapeake, at which Hood was defeated
The Battle of the Chesapeake, at which Hood was defeated
1795 portrait of Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott
1795 portrait of Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery