Robert Murray (Royal Navy officer)
Robert Murray was an officer in the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
An 1848 depiction of the Battle of Ushant by Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin. Murray was present during the fighting as a lieutenant aboard HMS Ramillies.
Yuri Lisyansky, 1810, by Volodymyr Borovykovsky. Lisyansky was a volunteer under Murray aboard HMS Oiseau
Provo Wallis, 1813, by Robert Field. Wallis was nominally entered aboard Oiseau by Murry, despite being only four years old
HMS Asia at the Halifax Naval Yard, 1797, during Murray's time in command. Watercolour by George Gustavus Lennox, who was a lieutenant aboard Asia.
French frigate Cléopâtre (1781)
Cléopâtre was a 32-gun Vénus class frigate of the French Navy. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and had a coppered hull. She was launched in 1781, and the British captured her in 1793. She then served the Royal Navy as HMS Oiseau until she was broken up in 1816.
Cléopâtre at Start Point, Devon in 1793
A plan of the Oiseau taken in 1793