Master and Commander - Ships in "Master and Commander"

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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