HMS Seahorse (1794)
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HMS Seahorse was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794 and broken up in 1819.
HMS Seahorse capturing Badiri-i-Zaffer, 6 July 1808
HM Frigates Seahorse and Cerebus, off Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey in 1796
Seahorse captured the French frigate Sensible on 27 June 1798 in the Strait of Sicily
A banner bearing the arms of Baron Ferdinand von Hompesch, 71st Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, in 1798 Napoleon's French forces captured Malta on their way to invade Egypt. Seahorse later seized the banner from the French at Malta, about 1797
John Goodwin Gregory Peyton was an officer in the Royal Navy during the American and French revolutionary wars. As a lieutenant, he fought alongside his father Joseph Peyton, at the Moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, and later, in 1798, commanded HMS Defence at the Battle of the Nile. He retired a Rear admiral in 1800 and died in 1809 at the age of 56.
The Moonlight Battle, where Peyton fought alongside his father, Joseph, aboard HMS Cumberland
Nelson's Band of Brothers at the Nile. Peyton's portrait is in the top row, fifth from the left