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HMS Alceste was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as Minerve, an Armide-class frigate. In the spring of 1806 the vessel engaged HMS Pallas, then under Lord Cochrane, but ran aground. Cochrane had to abort his attack when French reinforcements appeared. Captured by the British later in 1806, Minerve was taken into service as Alceste and served throughout the Napoleonic Wars. On 29 November 1811, Alceste led a British squadron that captured a French military convoy carrying more than 200 cannon to Trieste. After this loss, Napoleon changed his planned eastward expansion in 1812 from the Balkans to Russia. The historian James Henderson has suggested that the two events were linked, and may have changed the course of the war. In 1814 the vessel transported British soldiers to North America during the War of 1812. In 1815 Alceste carried Lord Amherst on a diplomatic mission to China. Returning, the ship struck a reef in the Java Sea and was wrecked. (Full article...)
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Hi Ykraps and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:47, 28 January 2020 (UTC)