The Yellow Admiral - Ships Mentioned

Ships Mentioned

The British:

The Brest outer squadron:

  • HMS Queen Charlotte - 104 gun three-decker flagship, vice-admiral of the white
  • HMS Zealous - seventy-four
  • HMS Bellona - seventy-four
  • HMS Monmouth - seventy-four
  • HMS Naiad - frigate
  • HMS Doris - frigate
  • HMS Alexandria - frigate

The Brest inner squadron:

  • HMS Ramillies
  • HMS Aboukir
  • HMS Phoebe - frigate
  • HMS Nimble

Re-inforced with:

  • HMS Grampus - fifty-gun two-decker
  • HMS Scipion - seventy-four
  • HMS Eurotas - thirty-eight gun frigate
  • HMS Penelope - frigate

Funchal harbour, Madeira:

  • HMS Pomone - thirty-eight, Captain Wrangham; Jack raises his broad pennant on her
  • HMS Dover - thirty-two; troop-ship
  • HMS Rainbow and HMS Ganymede - two corvettes (joined by HMS Briseis)

Others:

  • HM Hired Ship Surprise - twenty-eight - Privately owned by Maturin
  • HMS Dryad - thirty-six gun frigate
  • HMS Achates - sixteen-gun sloop
  • Ringle - Baltimore clipper (privately owned by Jack Aubrey, used as Bellona's tender by Aubrey)

The French:

  • Les Deux Frères - heavily-armed privateer
  • Clorinde - frigate
  • two seventy-fours

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