HMS Milan
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HMS Milan was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been Ville de Milan, a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, but served for only a year before being chased down and engage
Battle between Ville de Milan and HMS Cleopatra, depicted in a contemporary print
The chase of Ville de Milan by HMS Cleopatra
HMS Cleopatra (1779)
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HMS Cleopatra was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a long career, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
HMS Milan
…been Ville de Milan, a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, but served for only a year before being chased down and engaged by the smaller 32-gun frigate HMS Cleopatra. Ville de Milan defeated and captured her opponent, but suffered so much damage that she was forced to surrender without a fight several days later…
1805 engraving of Cleopatra (centre) by Nicholas Pocock
Cleopatra towing Thetis towards the Chesapeake on 31 December 1794