HMS Melampus (1785)
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HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before the British sold her to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1815. With the Dutch, she participated in a major action at Algiers and, then, in a number of colonial punitive expeditions in the Dutch East Indies.
Detail from the painting by Bristol artist Chris Woodhouse of the 36-gun Bristol-built frigate HMS Melampus, commissioned and purchased in 1990 by Bristol City Museum
Melampus at the Battle of Tory Island, 12 October 1798
Melampus flag flown at Algiers
The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816, painting by George Chambers Sr.
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
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The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers. An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth bombarded ships and the harbour defences of Algiers.
Bombardment of Algiers, 1816, George Chambers
Edward Pellew, Lord Exmouth
Council of war on board the Queen Charlotte, 1818, Nicolaas Bauer
Panorama of the Battle of Algiers 1816, illustration from panoramic views exhibited in Leicester Square, London, 1818