HMS Hydra (1797)
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HMS Hydra launched in 1797 was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, armed with a main battery of twenty-eight 18-pounder guns.
She was built to the design of the captured French frigate Melpomene （taken in 1794）.
Hydra was commissioned in April 1797 under Captain Sir Francis Laforey.
At the action of 30 May 1798, Hydra, in company with the bomb vessel HMS Vesuvius and the cutter HMS Trial, ran aground the French corvette Confiante, which was destroyed.
The corvette Vésuve and an unnamed cutter also ran ashore, but the British were not able to destroy them.
Hydra was anchored at the Nore on Sunday 17 May 1801 （as recorded in the journal of Captain Matthew Flinders of HMS Investigator）.
Under the command of Captain George Mundy, for eight years from October 1802 to September 1810, she had an active career in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Blockade of Cadiz （1805-1806）.
On 24 June 1803 Hydra and His Majesty's hired armed cutter Rose captured the French privateer Phoebe.
Phoebe, of four guns, two swivel guns, and 33 men, had left Cherbourg some seven days earlier.
The gun-brig HMS Starling recaptured the brigs William, of Sunderland, and Diana, of London, and their cargoes.
She also recaptured Egyptian, of Waterford, which had been sailing in ballast.
Phoebe had captured them before she herself was captured.
Hydra and Starling arrived at Portsmouth on 29 June.
A print representing the French gun vessels captured 11 January 1804, by Tribune and Hydra and brought to Portsmouth On 30 January 1804, Hydra and Tribune,
operating independently, encountered a French flotilla of 20 vessels off Cape La Hogue, and captured three gun brigs and a lugger.
The gun brigs were of 100 tons burthen and new, having been launched only ten days earlier and having been rigged while still in the stocks.
They had troo...
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