HMS Speedy (1782)
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HMS Speedy was a 14-gun Speedy-class brig sloop of the Royal Navy. Built during the last years of the American War of Independence, she served with distinction during the French Revolutionary Wars.
HMS Speedy falling in with the wreck of HMS Queen Charlotte, 21 March 1800
Charles Cunningham, Speedy's commander at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars
George Cockburn, Speedy's fifth commander who rose to the rank of admiral of the fleet
Hugh Downman, Speedy's commander between 1797 and 1799
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão, styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, politician and mercenary. Serving during the French Revo
HMS Speedy (1782)
…privateer Papillon on 3 February 1798. His successor, Jahleel Brenton, fought a number of actions against Spanish forces off Gibraltar. Her last captain, Lord Cochrane, forced the surrender of the much larger Spanish frigate El Gamo. A powerful French squadron captured her again in 1801 and Napoleon donated her to the…
Portrait by James Ramsay, c. 1830
Cochrane's father, the 9th Earl of Dundonald (1748–1831)
Speedy under Cochrane capturing El Gamo in the action of 6 May 1801
1951 copy by Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller of Peter Edward Stroehling's 1807 portrait of Cochrane