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On this day in 1759 - the Battle of Quiberon Bay took place. Fought in a gale, on a lee shore it was the Royal Navy’s most decisive victory before Nelson

Picture is the Battle of Quiberon Bay by Richard Wright

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2020-11-20

French frigate Cannoniere by Pierre-Julien Gilbert

In 1806 she found herself hopelessly outgunned by the 74-gun HMS Tremendous in the Indian Ocean. Her captain used his ship’s manoeuvrability to damage the much larger British ship aloft to escape

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2020-04-23

French corvette Bayonnaise rams and then boards HMS Ambuscade. Outgunned and facing defeat, this bold move resulted in a French victory. Painting by French artist Jean Francois Hue

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2020-03-30

Meet the Cannoniere is this week’s blog - the French frigate that fought a Royal Navy 74, and lived to tell the tale.



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2019-03-18

Action between French frigate Canonnière (40), commanded by Cptn Bourayne, against the Royal Navy’s Tremedous (74) and Hindostan (50). A good example of how an out-gunned ship can use its speed and manoeuvrability to avoid defeat. Painting by PJ Gilbert

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2019-01-23

Single-ship actions were some of the age of sail’s most savage fights, few more so than one fought off the Gironde estuary in December 1798. Find out what happened in my blog this week
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2018-11-19