What served Nelson as his flagship from 6 June 1799 until the end of June 1801, and was one of two British-built 80-gun ships he other being designed by Sir Edward Hunt?
98cc4ed2deeca9b2098546c96a7598c8
HMS Caesar (1793) HMS "Caesar, also Cæsar", was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 November 1793 at Plymouth. She was designed by Sir Edward Hunt, and was the only ship built to her draught. She was also one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period, the other being HMS Foudroyant (1798).
62ebdfc699cc2f9de8cadd16220acb3f
HMS Foudroyant (1798) HMS "Foudroyant" was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period (the other was HMS Caesar (1793)). "Foudroyant" was built in the dockyard at Plymouth Dock (a.k.a. Devonport) and launched on 31 March 1798. "Foudroyant" served Nelson as his flagship from 6 June 1799 until the end of June 1801.
cf6b24894dfc4c190b941b08cd63b566
HMS Veteran (1787) HMS "Veteran" was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 August 1787 at East Cowes. She was designed by Sir Edward Hunt, and was the only ship built to her draught.
6bc1746b3fa752822787db1510d2fc9a
HMS Trafalgar (1841) HMS "Trafalgar" was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 June 1841 at Woolwich Dockyard. HMS "Trafalgar" was the last ship to complete the successful "Caledonia" class.
064eeb98ff461227259f18ab2a341945
HMS Clarence (1827) HMS "Clarence" was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.
435878e4cf1eabe0d75fcc8dc2c1ac0b
Order of battle at the Battle of the Nile The Battle of the Nile was a significant naval action fought during 1–3 August 1798. The battle took place in Aboukir Bay, near the mouth of the River Nile on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt and pitted a British fleet of the Royal Navy against a fleet of the French Navy. The battle was the climax of a three-month campaign in the Mediterranean during which a huge French convoy under General Napoleon Bonaparte had sailed from Toulon to Alexandria via Malta. Despite close pursuit by a British fleet of thirteen ships of the line, one fourth rate and a sloop under Sir Horatio Nelson, the French were able to reach Alexandria unscathed and successfully land an army, which Bonaparte led inland. The fleet that had escorted the convoy, consisting of thirteen ships of the line, four frigates and a number of smaller vessels under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, anchored in Aboukir Bay as Alexandria harbour was too narrow, forming a line of battle that was protected by shoals to the north and west.
69c55ab46dad4078c22f1105394def4b
HMS Prince William (1780) HMS "Prince William was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, but was better known as Guipuzcoano", an armed merchantmen of the Spanish Basque "Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas".
2a6261f1ec954713647c5a1ec092ea25
Action of 24 June 1801 The Action of 24 June 1801 was a minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars. A British ship of the line, HMS "Swiftsure" under Captain Benjamin Hallowell was passing westwards through the Southern Mediterranean near Cape Derna when it encountered a much larger French squadron under Contre-Amiral Honoré Ganteaume that was also returning westwards after a failed attempt to reinforce the besieged French garrison in Egypt. Although Hallowell immediately recognised the danger his vessel was in and turned to flee, the French ships were much faster and soon closed with his ship. At 14:00, three French vessels were within long gunshot and Hallowell decided that his only hope of escape lay in disabling the three ships before the rest of the French squadron could join the engagement. Turning towards the enemy, Hallowell found that his sluggish ship was unable to respond rapidly to French manoeuvres and within two hours "Swiftsure" was surrounded. Threatened with complete destruction and unable to escape, the British captain surrendered.
fb71187a442a94c9859fc4307cadedc6
HMS Orion (1787) HMS "Orion" was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the "Canada"-class , by William Bately. She took part in all the major actions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under a series of distinguished captains.
6938ae161e42321f6f8a66e43fe07a4c
HMS Lancaster (1797) HMS "Lancaster" was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 January 1797 at Rotherhithe. She was designed and built as the East Indiaman "Pigot" for the British East India Company, but the Navy purchased her on the stocks because of a shortage of naval vessels to prosecute the French Revolutionary Wars.
f39ab21817cf5a8ac848b39575638668
HMS Ardent (1796) HMS "Ardent" was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 April 1796 at Northfleet. She had been designed and laid down for the British East India Company, but the Navy purchased her for service as a warship for the French Revolutionary War.
e1966012ff69fdbe9108b9ad9b6b6b81
French ship Scipion (1798) Scipion was a 74-gun French ship of the line, built at Lorient to a design by Jacques Noel Sane. She was launched as "Orient" in late 1798, and renamed "Scipion" in 1801. She was first commissioned in 1802 and joined the French Mediterranean fleet based at Toulon, in the squadron of Admiral Leissègues. Consequently she was one of the ships afloat in that port when war with England reopened in May 1803. She participated in the Battle of Cape Finisterre and the Battle of Trafalgar. The British captured her in the subsequent Battle of Cape Ortegal. In 1810 she participated in the Java campaign, which in 1847 earned her surviving crew the Naval General Service Medal. She participated in the blockade of Toulon in 1813 and was paid off in 1814. She was broken up in 1819.
09abc0871aaf5149e3a3f3cf28947631
HMS Neptune (1832) HMS "Neptune" was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1832 at Portsmouth.
c027048116c678207ddf54335d18d893
HMS Malabar (1804) HMS "Malabar was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the East Indiaman Cuvera, launched at Calcutta in 1798. She made one voyage to London for the British East India Company and on her return to India served as a transport and troopship to support General Baird's expedition to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there. The Navy bought her in 1804 and converted her to a storeship in 1806. After being renamed HMS "Coromandel she became a convict ship and made a trip carrying convicts to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales in 1819. She spent the last 25 years of her career as a receiving ship for convicts in Bermuda before being broken up in 1853.
6cd14b46ff86655078a271bff9cab8c5
Ramillies-class ship of the line The "Ramillies"-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.
6d93daaa7d518d4e58db9362ca7009c3
Action of 31 May 1796 The Action of 31 May 1796 was a small action during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Commodore Horatio Nelson, in the 64-gun third-rate ship of the line HMS "Agamemnon" , captured a seven-vessel French convoy that was sailing along the coast from Menton to Vado in the Mediterranean. The British succeeded in capturing the entire convoy, with minimal casualties to themselves.
c4c9b6799149625b7543c32ce40d6acc
HMS Neptune (1757) HMS "Neptune" was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 17 July 1757.
376614b9b6c112d3fa0ddb9026388207
HMS Dragon (1798) HMS "Dragon" was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1798 at Rotherhithe. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to her draught.
4b9d8d8df2981a043b3684f93ef92023
HMS Elephant (1786) HMS "Elephant" was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by George Parsons in Bursledon, Hampshire, and launched on 24 August 1786.
f6d799417215bcc2ddf6614332531c6b
Caledonia-class ship of the line The "Caledonia"-class ships of the line were a class of nine 120-gun first rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir William Rule. A tenth ship ("Royal Frederick") was ordered on 29 October 1827 to the same design, but was launched in 1833 as "Queen" to a fresh design by Sir William Symonds.
71b0d8c0ddc6eb1e4417311a197f26ac
Minerve-class frigate The "Minerve" class was a type of 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, carrying 18-pounder long guns as their main armament. Six ships of this type were built at Toulon Dockyard, and launched between 1782 and 1794. The frigates served the French Navy briefly during the French Revolutionary Wars. The Royal Navy captured all six between 1793 and 1799 and took them into service, with all but one serving in the Napoleonic Wars, and some thereafter.
870f7cf5dfb37553f8f1bb81c1e17d9b
Lord Nelson (East Indiaman) Lord Nelson was an East Indiaman, launched in late 1799, sailing for the East India Company. She made five voyages, of which she completed four. On her second voyage the French privateer "Bellone" captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her within about two weeks. On her fifth voyage "Lord Nelson" foundered in 1808 with the loss of all aboard.