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  • ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amsterdam, after the city of Amsterdam: HMS Amsterdam (1804) was the Dutch frigate Proserpine, launched...
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  • HMS Rifleman was the mercantile brig Telegraph that the Royal Navy purchased in 1804, renamed, and intended for use as a fireship. The Navy sold her in...
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  • the Dutch 24-gun Dolflin, launched in 1780 at the Amsterdam naval yard, which HMS Wolverine and HMS Arrow captured at Vlie Island in 1799. She became...
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    cannons that were located primarily to seaward. In 1804, the British naval captain named John Bligh, of HMS Theseus, fired a cannonball at the church. Bligh...
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  • HMS Berbice was the Batavian Republic's schooner Serpent that HMS Heureux took possession of at Berbice in 1803 at the capitulation of the colony and...
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    her into service as HMS Berbice. In 1804 the British captured Proserpine at Suriname and took her into service as HMS Amsterdam. Winfield (2008), p. 215...
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  • Dutch frigate Proserpine (1801) (category Ships built in Amsterdam)
    Amsterdam in 1801 as a 32-gun frigate. The Royal Navy captured her in May 1804 at the capture of Surinam and took her into service as HMS Amsterdam....
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  • HMS Cormorant was probably launched in 1803 at Howden Pans as the merchant ship Blenheim. The Admiralty purchased her in June and the Royal Navy took...
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  • HMS Daring was a 12-gun gun-brig of the Archer class of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1804 and served in the Channel and North Sea, capturing...
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  • HMS Thrasher was launched in 1804 at Brightlingsea, or Colchester as the merchant vessel Adamant. The British Royal Navy purchased her in June 1804, renamed...
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  • navy of the Dutch Republic. In 1799 the Royal Navy captured her. She became HMS Braak, but the Navy sold her with the arrival of the Peace of Amiens. Daniel...
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    east of the Surinam River, to the rear of Fort New Amsterdam. The same night, the captain of HMS Emerald, James O'Brien was ordered to assist Brigadier-General...
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  • British service as HMS Unique. Conway Shipley transferred from Saint Lucia and took command of Hippomenes on 22 March 1804. On 25 March 1804, he and the 18-gun...
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  • repaired by Swedes and commissioned as HMS Alexander, further future is unknown Aleksandra 38 ("Александра", 1790) – BU 1804 Elena 38 ("Елена", 1790) – BU 1802...
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  • April 1804, she convoyed a number of vessels from Cork to Falmouth. Argus detained Sally, Swazy, master, which had been sailing from Boston to Amsterdam, and...
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    Alexander Skene replacing him in November. On 16 August 1804, Leander was in company with HMS Cambrian when they recaptured Hibberts. She then had three...
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    William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River...
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    with distinction in the Mediterranean until the fall of 1805. On 3 August 1804, he led his crew of Gunboat Number 6, manned by another midshipman and nine...
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  • captured in 1800. She served with the Royal Navy as the 22-gun post ship HMS Heureux. She captured numerous French and Spanish privateers and merchant...
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    became the privateer Egyptienne, which HMS Hippomenes, captured in 1804. The British took Egyptienne into service as HMS Antigua. Antigua served as a prison...
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