Order of Battle
| Captain Strachan's squadron | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Caesar | Third rate | 80 | Captain Sir Richard Strachan | 4 | 25 | 29 | ||||
| HMS Hero | Third rate | 74 | Captain Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner | 10 | 51 | 61 | ||||
| HMS Courageux | Third rate | 74 | Captain Richard Lee | 1 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| HMS Namur | Third rate | 74 | Captain Lawrence Halsted | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||||
| HMS Santa Margarita | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Wilson Rathbone | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| HMS Aeolus | Fifth rate | 32 | Captain Lord William Fitzroy | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| HMS Phoenix | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Thomas Baker | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| HMS Révolutionnaire | Fifth rate | 38 | Captain Hon. Henry Hotham | 2 | 6 | 8 | ||||
| Casualties: 24 Killed, 111 Wounded, 135 Total | ||||||||||
| Rear-Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley's Squadron | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formidable | Third rate | 80 | Rear-Admiral Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley | - | - | c. 200 | Captured, commissioned as HMS Brave | |||
| Scipion | Third rate | 74 | Captain Charles Berrenger | - | - | c. 200 | Captured, commissioned as HMS Scipion | |||
| Duguay-Trouin | Third rate | 74 | Captain Claude Touffet † | - | - | c. 150 | Captured, commissioned as HMS Implacable | |||
| Mont Blanc | Third rate | 74 | Captain Guillaume-Jean-Noël de Lavillegris | - | - | c. 180 | Captured, commissioned as HMS Mont Blanc | |||
| Casualties: 730 killed and wounded | ||||||||||
| Sources: Adkin, p. 535; Fremont-Barnes, p. 86 | ||||||||||
Key
- † Officer killed during the action or subsequently died of wounds received.
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