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HMS Hamadryad (1804)
HMS ''Hamadryad'' may refer to: * captured by the British in the action of 26 April 1797 The action of 26 April 1797 was a minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Spanish convoy of two frigates was trapped and defeated off the Spanish town of Conil de la Frontera by British ships of the Cadiz blocka ... and taken into service as HMS ''Hamadryad''. She was wrecked off the coast of Portugal in December that same year. * , the former Spanish 38-gun frigate ''Santa Matilda'', built in Havanna in 1778 and captured by the Royal Navy frigates ''Donegal'' and ''Medusa'' in 1804 off Cadiz. Renamed HMS ''Hamadryad'' and reduced to 36 guns in 1810, served in the Baltic and Newfoundland station. Sold at Woolwich for £2610 on 9 August 1815. * , a fifth-rate modified ''Leda''-class frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1823. Later a hospital ship. * , a Royal Navy torpedo gunboat, renamed HMS ''Hamadryad'' in 1918 and scrapped in 1920. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 26 April 1797
The action of 26 April 1797 was a minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Spanish convoy of two frigates was trapped and defeated off the Spanish town of Conil de la Frontera by British ships of the Cadiz blockade. The British vessels, the ship of the line HMS ''Irresistible'' and the Fifth-rate frigate HMS ''Emerald'', were significantly more powerful than the Spanish frigates, which were on the last stage of a voyage carrying treasure from Havana, Cuba, to the Spanish fleet base of Cadiz. The British commander, Captain George Martin, succeeded in chasing the Spanish vessels into the rocky Conil Bay, where they surrendered after a brief engagement in which the Spanish suffered significantly higher casualties than the British. One of the Spanish ships, the ''Santa Elena'', was subsequently wrecked on the shore, while the other, the ''Ninfa'', was captured and later recommissioned into the Royal Navy. The treasure carried on board the frigate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
