A list of French and American line-of-battle ships and frigates, captured, destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt, during the year 1814

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	Appendix No 11

See page 351

		Name	How, when, and where lost
Gun-ship
74	M	Brilliant	Captured, April 18, at the surrender of Genoa to the British.
	...	Régulus	Destroyed, April 6, by the French in the Gironde, to prevent capture.
Gun-frig.
40	Z	Alcmène	Captured January 20 and 16, by the British 74 Venerable and 22-gun ship Cyane, off Madeira.
		Iphigénie
		Cérès	Captured, January 6, by the British frigates Niger and Tagus, off the Cape-de-Vierds.
		Clorinde	Captured, March 26, by the British frigates Dryad and Eurotas, lat. 470� 40' north, longitude 9� 30' west.
		Etoile	Captured, March 27 by the British frigate Hebrus, off Cape La Hogue.
		Sultane	Captured March 26, by the British 74 Hannibal, off Cherbourg.
		Terpsichore	Captured, February 3 by the British 56-gun ship Majestic, latitude 36� 41' north, longitude 22� 11' west.
		Uranie	Destroyed, February 3, by the French at Brendici, to prevent capture.
32	D	Essex, A.	Captured, March 28, by the British frigate Phoebe and sloop Cherub, off Valparaiso.
26	...	Adams, A.	Destroyed, September 3, by her crew at Castine, in the Penobscot, to prevent capture.

An abstract of French and American line-of-battle ships and frigates captured, &c., during the year 1814.

		Lost through the enemy		Lost through accident			Total lost to the French and American navies	Total to added British navy
		Capt.	Dest.	Wrecked	Foundered	Burnt	Total lost to the French and American navies	Total to added British navy
Ships of the line	F.	1	1	...	...	...	2	1
	F.	7	1	...	...	...	8	7
Frigates	A.	1	1	...	...	...	2	1
Total		9	3	...	...	...	12	9

In the annual abstract to which this list belongs, there appear to have been eight foreign frigates of the Z class added to the navy. This is a mistake. The Melpomène, one of the number, was not captured until 1815.

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