User:Jackyd101/Defeated warships, 1793-1815


 * See also: User:Jackyd101/British losses, 1793-1815

Warships of at least corvette size (20 guns and larger) captured, destroyed or otherwise removed from service by British military action during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1801) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), including all subsidiary conflicts and contemporary actions. This list currently reflects article that I have worked on regarding the actions in which these ships were defeated. To give some idea of just how incomplete the list it, France and her allies lost: 9 first rates (100+ guns), 132 ships of the line (60-80 guns) and 244 frigates (30-56 guns) during the war to enemy action, based on a rough count of the shipping loss tables over the period.

To be included, a destroyed ship has to have been ruined beyond repair and (with one or two exceptions) a captured ship must not have been recaptured before it reached a British port. Likewise, a British ship that had been captured by the enemy and subsequently recaptured must have visited an enemy port or been commissioned by the enemy navy in between the encounters to count as an operational enemy warship for the purposes of this list.

First rate ships of the line
Ships of over 100 guns.

Ships of the line
Ships of 60 to 80 guns.

Fourth rates
Ships of 50 to 58 guns.

Frigates
Ships of 30 to 48 guns.

Corvettes
''Ships of 20 to 28 guns. Only included where their defeat coincides with a wider operation.''

General notes
 ^ Ships marked with a "P" were privateers, armed ships of the classes in which they appear that were not provided by national governments but by private investors under government license seeking to make a profit from commerce raiding. ^ Ships marked with an "R" had at one time been ships of the Royal Navy captured either earlier in the conflict or in previous conflicts which were subsequently recaptured or destroyed by British military action. As noted in the introduction, to be included in this list the captured ship must have been commissioned by its captors. ^ Ships marked with a "C" were subsequently recaptured or destroyed by French or allied forces during the course of the wars. 