• Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Castor at the frigate action of 29 May 1794?

Facts on topics related to Frigate action of 29 May 1794

Glorious First of June

• Captain Anthony Molloy's court martial and disgrace following the Glorious First of June was attributed by some to a curse from a woman he had dishonored?
• HMS Sans Pareil (pictured), a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars?
• Sir Charles Knowles claimed that the theories on naval tactics expressed in his 1777 book were reflected in Lord Howe's victory in 1794 (pictured)?
• William Prowse joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman, saw action at the Glorious First of June, Cape St Vincent, Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar, and died a Rear-Admiral?
• Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport of the Royal Navy was elevated to the peerage for his exploits in the Battle of the Glorious First of June?

HMS Carysfort (1766)

• the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort?

HMS Castor (1785)

• Royal Navy frigate HMS Castor was captured by the French in 1794, but was retaken (pictured) just 20 days later?
• Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Castor at the frigate action of 29 May 1794?
• the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort?

Francis Laforey

• Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Castor at the frigate action of 29 May 1794?

HMS Sans Pareil (1794)

• HMS Sans Pareil (pictured), a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars?

Royal Navy

• Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy?
• Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?
• Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
• Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?
• one of the French ships captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805 went on to serve the Royal Navy for 144 years?
• Horatio Nelson described Captain George Elliot as one of the best officers in the navy?
• Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?
• naval historian William James declared that HMS Seine's victory over the French ship Vengeance (pictured) showed that British ships were "more potent than American thunder"?
• Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?
• Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone, based on stories about a traffic cone, that he made up for his children on long trips?

Battle of Trafalgar

• Captain Thomas Baker played a significant role in bringing about three battles during the Napoleonic Wars: Copenhagen, Trafalgar, and Cape Ortegal?
• Captain Thomas Dundas's ship, HMS Naiad, towed the crippled HMS Belleisle through a gale to safety after the Battle of Trafalgar?
• Alexander John Scott (pictured), Nelson's chaplain at Trafalgar, was once struck by lightning while asleep in his cabin?
• Constantine Richard Moorsom was listed as having been in the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 13, even though he was actually in school at the time?
• George Miller Bligh was present at Nelson's death at Trafalgar, and was subsequently incorporated into Arthur William Devis's painting of the event?
• HMS Alcmene's surgeon for nearly five years was William Beatty, who in 1805 attended the dying Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar?
• HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British, and at Trafalgar for the French?
• John Pasco (pictured) advised Nelson to change the wording of "England expects that every man will do his duty", his famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar?
• William Prowse joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman, saw action at the Glorious First of June, Cape St Vincent, Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar, and died a Rear-Admiral?
• Captain Israel Pellew, brother of the more famous Sir Edward Pellew, sent his Captain of Marines to receive Admiral Villeneuve's surrender at the Battle of Trafalgar but in the heat of battle, Villeneuve's sword never reached him and it was later given to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?