HMS GUERRIèRE

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named 'HMS ''Guerriere'''.

★ The first ''Guerriere'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, originally the French ship ''Peuple Souverain'', captured on 2 July 1798 at the Battle of the Nile. She was used as a sheer hulk from 1800 and broken up in 1810.

★ The second ''Guerriere'' was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, originally French, captured in 1806 by HMS ''Blanche'' off the Faroe Islands. In the War of 1812 she was captured by the American frigate USS ''Constitution'' after a battle on 19 August 1812 and burned.

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