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Appendix |
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A list of ships and vessels late belonging to the British navy, captured, destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or a accidentally burnt, during the year 1794.
| Gun-ship | Name | Commander. | How, when, and where lost. | |
| 74 | (M) | Impétueux | (in ordinary) | Burnt by accident and blown up, Aug 24, in Portsmouth harbour : crew saved. |
| 74 | (O) | Alexander | R. Rodney Bligh | Captured, Nov. 6, by a French squadron of five 74s and three frigates off Sicily. |
| 64 | (P) | Ardent | R. Manners Sutton | Burnt by accident and blown up, sometime in April, with all the crew, off Corsica. |
| Gun-frig. | ||||
| (G) | Convert | John Lawford | Wrecked, March 8, on the Grand Caymanes, West Indies: crew saved. | |
| 32 | (11) | Castor | Thos. Troubridge | Captured, May 9, by Admiral Nielly's squadron, off Cape Clear. |
| 28 | (1) | Rose | Matth. Henry Scott | Wrecked, June 28, on Rocky-Point, Jamaica: crew saved. |
| G. p. ship | ||||
| 18 | (K) | Amphitrite | Anthony Hunt | Wrecked, Jan. 30, by striking on a sunken rock in the Mediterranean : crew saved |
| G. sh. slp. | ||||
| 24 | (R) | Moselle | H. A. Bennett | Captured, January 7, by the French in Toulon, having entered by mistake. |
| 16 | (T) | Alert | Charles Smith | Captured, in May, by the French frigate Unité, off the coast of Ireland. |
| Pylades | Thomas Twisden | Wrecked, Nov. 26, in Heraldswick bay, isle of Nest, Shetland: crew saved. | ||
| (U) | Hound | R. Piercy | Captured, July 24, by the French frigates Seine and Galathée on her passage from the West Indies. | |
| (V) | Espion W. | W. Hugh Kittoe | Captured, date unknown, by three French frigates. | |
| G. bg. slp. | ||||
| 16 | (a) | Scout | Charles Robinson | Captured, in August, by two French frigates off Bona. |
| 14 | (b) | Speedy | George Eyre | Captured, in June, by a French squadron, off Nice. |
| G. gun. Brig. | ||||
| 10 | ( b) | Actif | John Harvey | Foundered, November 26, off Bermuda : crew saved. |
| G. cut. | ||||
| 14 | (i) | Ranger | Issaac Cotgrave | Captured, in June, by a French squadron, off Brest. |