Maritime History

HMS Racehorse (1806)

HMS Racehorse was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Hamilton & Breeds and launched in 1806 at Hastings. She served in the English Channel, where she captured a small privateer, and in the East Indies, where she participated in the capture of Isle de France (now Mauritius) and the operations around it. She was wrecked in 1822.

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See also

• ▸IJmuiden
• ▸Church of the Holy Rude
• ▸History of Lorient

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