User:Arthur Roberts

Researching Royal Navy Channel Fleet/frigates from the channel to Gibraltar area with emphasis on the period immediately after the Battle of the Basque Roads of April 1809 to the end of Lord Gambier's command of said fleet in 1811. Active in placing ships, commanders, actions, and movements therein, also linking ship to shore activity particularly prize agents.

Current interests:

Lord Gambier

HMS Christian VII, flagship of Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, 10th & 21st Jan, 13th Feb 1810

HMS Armide - Captain Hardyman and Lieutenant Samuel Roberts, 10th & 21st Jan, 13th Feb 1810, May 1810 with Christian VII

HMS Surveillante (1803), Captain George Collier, September 1810

HMS Hibernia, Sir John Duckworth, bound for Cadiz April 1810

HMS Scipion, flagship of Admiral Robert Stopford (Royal Navy officer)

Curtis, Gardner, Cotton

HMS Curaçao, 17th Nov 1810 Captain Tower

Battle of the Basque Roads

HMS Indefatigable (1784) Captain John Broughton 1809 -12

HMS Caledonia, Captain Sherman October 1810, Basque Roads

HMS Northumberland, Captain Henry Hotham

HMS Donegal Captain Pulteney Malcolm

HMS Niobe, Captain Loring

HMS Revenge, Captain Charles Paget

HMS Diana, Captain Charles Grant

HMS Amelia, Captain Fred Irby

HMS Medusa, Captain Bouverie, 6th Jan 1810

HMS Horatio, Captain Scott, 21st Feb 1810

HMS Rhin, Captain Malcolm, 22nd March 1810, 14 April?

HMS Implacable, Captain Cockburn, 22nd May 1810

HMS Valiant, _____ Basque Roads

HMS Echo sloop of war, Captain Keen, 12th March 1810

HMS Owen Glendour, Commander W. Selby, 10th March

HMS Arethusa, Captain Robert Mends, 17th March 1810

HMS Emerald, Captain Maitland, 23rd March 1810

HMS Raleigh sloop, Captain Seymour, 24th Feb 1810

HMS Royalist sloop, Captain Maxwell, 24th Feb 1810

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