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HMS Dictator (1783)

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303: 48: 26: 396: 1221: 392:, on eastern Jutland, where a company of soldiers and their field guns could provide cover. However, the British mounted a cutting out expedition of some 200 men in ten ships' boats after midnight on 7 July, capturing the three gunboats. 326:'s squadron of four ships-of-the-line together with some smaller vessels, tasked with maintaining the blockade between Jutland and Zealand. Her captain, Donald Campbell, ordered the sloop 499:
five killed and 24 wounded. In 1847 the surviving British participants were authorized to apply for the clasp "Off Mardoe 6 July 1812" to the Naval General Service Medal.
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Skibsted spent a year as a prisoner of war in England. On his return to Denmark he underwent a court martial for the loss of his vessels and was found guilty.
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served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the
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T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) "Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660–1814 og den danske Søetat 1814–1932" (in Danish).
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participated in the later stages, not having arrived until 18 February, the prize money awarded reflecting this late arrival.
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where she shared prize money with some 126 other British naval ships. She was again in Danish Waters the following year, in
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Prize money for the capture of enemy ships was usually shared with other warships in the squadron between 1801 and 1806.
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to the east of Bornholm but ran aground en route and had to be towed back to Karlskrona for repairs.
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Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for
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Five Danish gunboats under command of Captain-Lieutenant J. J. Suenson are attacked by HMS
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as prizes but had to abandon them after the two vessels grounded. The action cost
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The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.
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Log Book of HMS Prometheus 20 May 1808: National Archives, Kew ref ADM51/1962
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A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth
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shared in the proceeds of the capture of the American vessels in the
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to proceed on her successful patrols to Samsø, Tunø and Endelave.
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Admiral Saumarez versus Napoleon : The Baltic 1807–1812
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led a small squadron consisting of three brigs, the 18-gun
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was part of Admiral Gambier's fleet in the Øresund at the
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Sandvold, Steinar (29 June 2022), "Hans Peter Holm",
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On 8 March 1801, whilst disembarking the army at the
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Topsøe-Jensen and Marquard (1935), Vol 2 pp. 519–20.
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Index


Great Britain
Naval General Service Medal
Inflexible-class
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
QD
Fc
third-rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
Limehouse
the "Reduction of Trinidad" in 1797
Battle of Aboukir
the French campaign in Egypt
Naval General Service Medal
Admiralty

Battle of Copenhagen
Admiral Hood
HMS Falcon
Pea Islands
Gunboat War
Edgar
Alonzo
Peter Nicolay Skibsted
Grinder
Grenå

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