Samuel Hood Linzee
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Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood Linzee was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Portrait of Samuel Hood Linzee, 1802 by Sir Martin Archer Shee
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
Samuel Hood Linzee
…to England in a packet boat from Hamburg in mid-1796. At 8 a.m. on 26 January 1801, Linzee, newly in command of the 36-gun frigate, Oiseau (the former Cléopâtre) sighted the French 36-gun frigate Dédaigneuse, which was bound from Cayenne to Rochefort with despatches. The Oiseau pursued Dédaigneuse alone until…
Cléopâtre at Start Point, Devon in 1793