Battle of Quiberon Bay

The Battle of Quiberon Bay was a decisive naval engagement during the Seven Years' War. It was fought on 20 November 1759 between the Royal Navy and the French Navy in Quiberon Bay, off the coast of France near St. Nazaire. The battle was the culmination of British efforts to eliminate French naval superiority, which could have given the French the ability to carry out their planned invasion of Great Britain. A British fleet of 24 ships of the line under Sir Edward Hawke tracked down and engaged a French fleet of 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans. After hard fighting, the British fleet sank or ran aground six French ships, captured one and scattered the rest, giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories, and ending the threat of French invasion for good.

Battle of Lagos

The naval Battle of Lagos took place between a British fleet commanded by Sir Edward Boscawen and a French fleet under Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran over two days in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. They fought south west of the Gulf of Cádiz on 18

Frederick St John (British Army officer)

The Hon. Frederick St John was an officer of the British Army and a politician. He rose to the rank of general during his career and saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He also sat briefly for

Battle of Cape Ortegal

The Battle of Cape Ortegal was the final action of the Trafalgar campaign, and was fought between a squadron of the Royal Navy and a remnant of the fleet that had been defeated earlier at the Battle of Trafalgar. It took place on 4 November 1805 off Cape

HMS Trafalgar

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Trafalgar, after the Battle of Trafalgar:HMS Trafalgar (1820) was a 106-gun first rate launched in 1820. She was renamed HMS Camperdown in 1825, was used for harbour service from 1854 and became a coal

Battle of Saint Kitts

The Battle of Saint Kitts, also known as the Battle of Frigate Bay, was a naval battle fought on 25 and 26 January 1782 during the American Revolutionary War between a British fleet under Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger French fleet under the

French ship Ça Ira (1781)

The Couronne was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy

HMS Torbay

Five ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Torbay, after Torbay on the southwest English coast.HMS Torbay (1693), an 80-gun second rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1719 and broken up in 1749. HMS Torbay was previously HMS Neptune, a 90

Battle of Sadras

The Battle of Sadras was the first of five largely indecisive naval battles fought between a British fleet and a French fleet off the east coast of India during the Anglo-French War. Fought on 17 February 1782 near present-day Kalpakkam, the battle was

HMS Archer

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Archer, named after a person proficient in archery - an archer:HMS Archer (1801) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and sold in 1815. HMS Archer (1849) was a wood screw sloop launched in 1849 and

Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum