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Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Athenienne, or Athenian, or Athenien:
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Active or HMS Actif, with a thirteenth announced:
Twelve vessels of the French Navy have been named Duguay-Trouin in honour of René Duguay-Trouin.
HMSAthenienne was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was the former Maltese ship San Giovanni, which the French captured on the stocks in 1798 and launched and commissioned as Athénien. The Royal Navy captured her at or prior to the surrender of Valletta, on 4 September 1800, and took her into service as Athenienne. She was wrecked near Sicily, with great loss of life, in 1806.
Jean Bart may refer to one of the following ships of the French Navy or privateers named in honour of Jean Bart, a French naval commander and privateer.
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blonde:
Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant:
Three ships of Britain's Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Trompeuse, after the French word for "deceptive":
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Seagull or HMS Sea Gull, after the gull:
Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Proselyte:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Laurel. Another was planned but never completed. The first British ship of the name served in the Commonwealth navy. All were named after the plant family Lauraceae.
The siege of Malta, also known as the siege of Valletta or the French blockade, was a two-year siege and blockade of the French garrison in Valletta and the Three Cities, the largest settlements and main port on the Mediterranean island of Malta, between 1798 and 1800. Malta had been captured by a French expeditionary force during the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, and garrisoned with 3,000 soldiers under the command of Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois. After the British Royal Navy destroyed the French Mediterranean Fleet at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798, the British were able to initiate a blockade of Malta, assisted by an uprising among the native Maltese population against French rule. After its retreat to Valletta, the French garrison faced severe food shortages, exacerbated by the effectiveness of the British blockade. Although small quantities of supplies arrived in early 1799, there was no further traffic until early 1800, by which time starvation and disease was having a disastrous effect on health, morale, and combat capability of the French troops.
Several French ships have borne the name Courageux, Courageaux, or Courageuse:
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Poulette, after the French diminutive for the hen of the chicken:
HMS Barbuda was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1780 after having briefly served as an American privateer. Barbuda was one of the two sloops that captured Demerara and Essequibo in 1781, but the French Navy captured her there in 1782 and took her into service as Barboude. The French Navy sold her to private owners in 1786, and she served briefly as a privateer in early 1793 before the French Navy purchased her again and named her Légère. She served them until mid-1796 when the Royal Navy captured her and took her into service as HMS Legere. She was wrecked off the coast of Colombia, without loss of life, in February 1801.
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Berbice for the Berbice region:
Several ships have been named Robert.
Several vessels have been named Recovery:
HMS Albacore was launched in 1793 at Rotherhithe. She captured several privateers before she was sold in 1802.
HMS Athenienne was a brig, probably a French privateer that the French Navy requisitioned circa April 1796, but that the British captured off Barbados and commissioned later that year before selling her in 1802.