Name HMS Elizabeth Laid down August 1805 Tons burthen 1724 (bm) Launched 23 May 1807 | Fate Broken up, 1820 Construction started August 1805 | |
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HMS Elizabeth was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 May 1807 at Blackwall.
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Career
On 25 May 1814, Elizabeth captured the French naval xebec Aigle and her prize, the Glorioso off Corfu. Weazel shared in the prize money though it was the boats of Elizabeth that performed the actual capture in an action that in 1847 earned for their crews the Naval General Service Medal with clasp, "24 May Boat Service 1814". Aigle was armed with six guns, a howitzer, and three swivel guns, and had a crew of 40 men. The capture of the Aigle represented the last naval surrender of the French Tricolour in the Napoleonic Wars.
Fate
Elizabeth was broken up in 1820.
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