Action of 25 September 1806

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This battle took place on 25 September 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars off Rochefort, Charente-Maritime between a British force of 6 battleships and a sloop (of which only 3 of the battleships were in action) and a French force of 5 frigates and 2 corvettes. Unusually for French ships of the period, the largest 4 frigates put up a tough fight, damaging the rigging of Mars in particular, before they were caught and captured. The remaining frigate and the 2 corvettes fled early on. Infatigable was renamed Immortalité and Minerve was renamed Alceste for British service.

Ships involved:

[edit] Britain

Windsor Castle 98 - Took no part
Achille 74 - Took no part
Revenge 74 - Took no part
Centaur 74
Mars 74 - Damaged
Monarch 74
Atalante 16 - Took no part

[edit] France

Gloire 46 - Captured by Mars
Infatigable 44 - Captured by Mars
Minerve 44 - Captured by Monarch
Armide 44 - Captured by Centaur
Themis 36 - Fled
Lynx - Fled
Sylphe - Fled

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