HMS Spencer (1800)
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HMS Spencer was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 May 1800 at Bucklers Hard. Her designer was the French émigré shipwright Jean-Louis Barrallier. She served in two
Naval combat between the French ship Formidable commanded by Captain Troude, and three British naval ships, Caesar, Spencer, Venerable and the frigate Thames in sight of Cadiz, 13 July 1801
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford was a Royal Navy officer and politician whose career spanned over 60 years, from the French Revolutionary Wars to the Egyptian–Ottoman War.
HMS Spencer (1800)
…Spencer joined Admiral Robert Calder's squadron in October 1801. In December she sailed in chase to the West Indies. In May 1803 Captain Robert Stopford recommissioned Spencer. On 28 August Spencer recaptured the East Indiaman Lord Nelson. On 28 May she recaptured Castle Douglas, and the next month, on…
Portrait by Frederick Richard Say, c. 1840
Robert Stopford, c.1790-91, by Henry William Beechey, in the collection of the National Maritime Museum
HMS Phoenix at the bombardment of Acre
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery