Ships in "Master and Commander"
The British:
- HMS Audacious - Ship of the line and flagship
- HMS Niobe - frigate
- HMS Pallas - frigate
- HM Brig Sophie - brig sloop
- Burford -
- HMS Généreux - 74 gun Third rate. Captured from France in 1800.
- Tartarus - bomb-ketch
The Spanish:
- Cacafuego - xebec-type frigate (though named after a ship from the 16th century)
Other:
- Dorothe Engelbretsdotter - Norwegian cat in a convoy, Sophie has to protect. She is boarded by Algerian corsairs, but recaptured by Sophie
Also, O'Brian names all of the ships present at the Battle of Algeciras Bay.
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