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bore down on the port and ran along within close range of the gunboats while discharging their broadsides, sinking two of the vessels and forcing the surrender of the others. They then anchored close to the fort and commenced a brisk cannonade that forced the fort to surrender within 30 minutes. Over
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Lieutenant Edward Hunt Caulfield. Although the Spanish battery consequently opened fire, all three enemy vessels were taken with little damage. During the boarding action Caulfield was killed by a volley of musketry as he leapt aboard the privateer and 10 others were injured. After
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British ship to the anchorage and the first to observe the grounded French fleet at dawn the following day. Cochrane was eager to follow up the attack and spent the morning issuing a frantic series of signals to Gambier imploring him to dispatch the British fleet which were ignored.
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and a fort built on a promontory near the coast. Although a breach had been created by French cannon on high ground to the east, Cochrane assumed command of the fort and brought over two-thirds of his crew ashore to lay booby traps and bolster its defences. After gaining possession of the town the
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who assumed overall command of the squadron. Receiving intelligence the
Spanish ships were laden with treasure that was to be used to bolster Spanish finances prior to a declaration of war against Great Britain, the Royal Navy sent a squadron of four frigates to seize the Spanish ships and their
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and dispatched their boats to the shore, capturing 10 armed polacres laden with oil. Two days later they discovered 10 Neapolitan gunboats and several merchant vessels moored under a fort in the port at
Palinuro. Deeming their numbers insufficient to attack the port, Duncan dispatched
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were sent to silence the fort. Despite coming under heavy musket fire, the
British sailors drove out the fort's defenders and destroyed the battery before returning to their boats and capturing two of the gunboats. During the attack one marine was killed and two crewmen injured while
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French launched an assault on the fort on 30 November which was repulsed with heavy losses inflicted on the attackers. However, on 5 December, the
Spanish garrison in the citadel surrendered and Cochrane found his position in the fort untenable. Covered by the
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s officers, Lieutenant
Mapleton, led a party that took possession of the mole. The batteries were subsequently blown up by the British and the entire convoy was captured without any losses sustained by the attackers.
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took up position north of the anchorage to receive the crews returning from the fire ships. Although the fire ships inflicted only minor damage, all but two French vessels ran aground in the estuary of the river
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escorted a convoy of
Spanish troops from Majorca to the mainland. Cochrane then proceeded to disrupt the French supply lines sending landing parties ashore to attack the main coastal road between Barcelona and
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was given a two-month cruise in the
Adriatic and seized three merchant vessels carrying illegal licences to trade. She was subsequently dispatched to the western Mediterranean in February where she sank two
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on 30 July with a large
British fleet bound for the Netherlands. The fleet formed part of the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign – a joint expedition with the army that aimed to destroy French dockyards at
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in 1809. During the battle she was heavily engaged, assisting with the destruction of four French ships of the line and a frigate. Later that year she took part in the unsuccessful
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to slowly drift towards the French ships and made a final signal which he believed Gambier could not overlook: "The ship is in distress and requires to be assisted immediately".
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in Gibraltar and in June the following year she was dispatched to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's blockading fleet off Toulon. The commander of the fleet, Sir
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s guns, Cochrane and his men returned to their ship and set off demolition charges which partially destroyed the fort. Continuing northward along the Catalonian coast
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sailed for the Balearic Islands on 5 March. Patrolling the coasts of Majorca and Menorca, she captured 10 small prizes and bombarded the Spanish army barracks at
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to abandon ship. Cochrane sent boats to take possession of her but the vessel was mistakenly set on fire and destroyed. The British reinforcements formed a
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and barracks blown up. As French troops gathered to respond to the threat, Cochrane and Brenton responded by sending a detachment of boats filled with the
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took station alongside the covering battery. After opening fire, a landing party led by Lieutenant Travers captured the southern battery while another of
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two killed and 13 wounded, and the privateer one dead and 15 wounded. However, the polacre later proved to be Maltese—a friendly vessel—operating under a
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after receiving a letter from the crew expressing their admiration for the captain and their desire for him to remain with the ship. In April 1813
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patrolling the western coast of Italy. On 27 June, the squadron launched boats to attack a convoy of 18 French vessels anchored off
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to launch a diversionary attack to the north. Meanwhile, the main assault successfully destroyed the remaining batteries while
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the next two days the fort was blown up and once the troops re-embarked the two frigates departed with six gunboats and 22
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orders to patrol the coast of Naples and on 11 October Duncan discovered three gunboats moored under a fort at
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suffered two killed and ten wounded. The capture of the squadron incited outrage in Spain and in December the
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inshore and captured eleven vessels laden with supplies for the French army and the convoy's escorts—a 7-gun
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788:launched a surprise attack on a French privateer—
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642:. After her repairs were completed in November,
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38:Destruction of the French Fleet in Basque Roads
1999:The Naval History Of Great Britain, Volume III
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2074:British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817
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2025:The Naval History Of Great Britain, Volume V
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1970:The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane
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2051:Royal Naval Biography, Volume II, Part II
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1546:"El Ăşltimo viaje de la Fragata Mercedes"
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902:disguised in the scarlet jackets of the
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19:For other ships with the same name, see
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602:. She was initially registered as HMS
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2159:Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy
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1788:Cordingly (2008), pp. 202–203.
1725:Cordingly (2008), pp. 164–165.
1716:Cordingly (2008), pp. 158–161.
1698:Cordingly (2008), pp. 152–153.
1671:Cordingly (2008), pp. 141–143.
1644:Cordingly (2008), pp. 137–139.
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16:Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate
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2149:Ships built in Ferrol, Spain
1575:Portal de Archivos Españoles
1570:"Medea (fragata, 1797–1804)"
2128:HMS Imperieuse (ship, 1797)
1752:James (Vol. V), pp. 110–111
1231:Return to the Mediterranean
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1743:Cordingly (2008), p. 174.
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1707:Cordingly (2008), p. 154.
1689:Cordingly (2008), p. 144.
1662:Cordingly (2008), p. 141.
1635:Cordingly (2008), p. 118.
1626:Cordingly (2008), p. 109.
1617:James (Vol. III), p. 283.
1608:James (Vol. III), p. 282.
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175:38-gun fifth-rate frigate
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154:Quarantine ship from 1818
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1890:Marshall (1825), p. 997.
1872:Marshall (1825), p. 995.
1817:The Gentleman's Magazine
1535:Winfield (2014), p. 150.
474:Action of 5 October 1804
167:General characteristics
2077:. Seaforth Publishing.
1863:James (Vol. V), p. 375.
1854:Woodman (2001), p. 168.
1830:James (Vol. V), p. 373.
1779:James (Vol. V), p. 115.
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230:12 ft (3.7 m)
2071:Winfield, Rif (2014).
1945:Cochrane the Dauntless
1899:Clowes (1900), p. 535.
1881:Clowes (1900), p. 509.
1842:Clowes (1900), p. 494.
1797:James (Vol. V), p. 138
1680:Clowes (1900), p. 405.
1653:Grimble (2000), p. 76.
1599:Clowes (1900), p. 351.
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