HMS Pallas (1804)
HMS ''Pallas'' was a 32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate, ''Thames''-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804 at Plymouth. History ''Pallas'' was one of the seven ''Thames'' class frigates ordered for the fleet in early 1804. Her keel was laid at HMNB Devonport, Plymouth Dockyard in June 1804 and she was launched on the afternoon of 17 November the same year along with her sister-ship HMS Circe (1804), HMS ''Circe''. ''Pallas'' entered service in January 1805, under the command of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Lord Cochrane and proceeded to cruise in the vicinity of the Azores. Here, ''Pallas'' captured three Spanish merchant ships and a Spanish 14-gun privateer. Cochrane was given orders to cruise off the Normandy coast in 1806. During the evening of 5 April 1806, Cochrane sailed ''Pallas'' into the Gironde estuary and captured the French 14-gun French corvette Tapageuse (1795), ''Tapageuse'', and drove ashore and wrecked three other corvettes. The corv ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively limited. How ...
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