HMS Alceste
Wrecked
French Navy, then Royal Navy
| Type | Frigate |
|---|---|
| Rate | Fifth rate |
| Guns | 38 guns |
| War | Napoleonic Wars |
Service
| to 1806 | Minerve | |
| from 1806 | Alceste Captured off Rochefort |
French frigate Minerve, taken off Rochefort on 25 September 1806 and renamed Alceste. Murray Maxwell's ship at Pelagosa in 1811, where she took Pomone. Wrecked in the Gaspar Strait in 1817 bringing Lord Amherst's embassy home from China.
Career
25 September 1806
As Minerve
Renamed HMS Alceste
26 September 1806 · Captured off Rochefort
Battle of Pelagosa
Damaged
29 November 1811
Murray Maxwell