Action off Genoa, 14th March 1795

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Action off Genoa

14^th March 1795
Part of : The French Revolutionary Wars (1793 - 1802)
Previous action : Lively vs Tourterelle 13.3.1795
Next action : Astraea vs Gloire 10.4.1795


Allied (Great Britain & Kingdom of Naples)

Allied Van
Ship Name	Commander	Notes
Name : Princess Royal (98)	John Child Purvis (1746/47-1825)
Name : Tancredi (74)	Francesco Caracciolo (1752-1799)
Name : Captain (74)	Samuel Reeve (c.1732-1803)
Name : Bedford (74)	Davidge Gould (1758-1847)
Name : Agamemnon (64)	Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
Name : Minerva (40)
Name : Lowestoffe (28)	Robert Gambier Middleton
Name : Poulette (28)	Ralph Willett Miller (d.1799)
Name : Tarleton (14)	Charles Brisbane (1769-1829)

Allied Center
Ship Name	Commander	Notes
Name : Britannia (100)	John Holloway (1747-1826)
Name : Windsor Castle (98)	John Gore (1772-1836)
Name : Egmont (74)	Robert Manners Sutton (d.1794)
Name : Illustrious (74)	Thomas Lennox Frederick (1750-1799)	20 killed, 70 wounded
Name : Courageux (74)	John Mathews (d.1798)	15 killed, 33 wounded
Name : Inconstant (36)	Thomas Francis Fremantle (1765-1819)
Name : Meleager (32)	George Cockburn (1772-1853)

Allied Rear
Ship Name	Commander	Notes
Name : Saint George (98)	Thomas Foley (1755-1833)	Squadron Flagship
Name : Terrible (74)	George Campbell (1759-1821)	0 killed, 6 wounded
Name : Fortitude (74)	William Young (1751-1821), Thomas Taylor
Name : Diadem (64)	Andrew Sutherland (d.1795), Charles Tyler (1760-1835)
Name : Romulus (36)	George Johnstone Hope (1767-1818)
Name : Moselle (24)

Ship Name	Commander	Notes
Name : Fox (12)

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French Squadron, Pierre Martin (1752-1820)
Ship Name	Commander	Notes
Name : La Friponne (32)	Louis Léonce Trullet (1756-1827)	Fleet Flagship
Name : Sans Culotte (118)	Pierre Félix de Lapalisse (1753-1820)
Name : L'Alcide (74)	Leblond Saint-Hylaire
Name : Le Conquérant (74)	Lemancq
Name : L'Heureux (74)	Charles Nicolas Lacaille (1754-1819)
Name : Le Tonnant (84)	Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien (1761-1825)
Name : Victoire (90)	Chevalier Daniel Savary (1742/43-1808)
Name : Ça Ira (84)
Name : Le Censeur (74)	Louis-Marie Coudé
Name : Le Mercure (74)	Catteford
Name : Le Barra (74)	André Maureau
Name : Le Duquesne (74)	Zacharie Jacques Théodore Allemand (1762-1826)
Name : Le Généreux (74)	Louis
Name : Le Guerrier (74)	Louis-Antoine-Cyprien Infernet (1756-1815)
Name : Peuple Souverain (74)
Name : Timoléon (74)
Name : La Minerve (42)	Delorme, Delorme
Name : L'Alceste (36)
Name : La Vestale (32)
Name : La Tamise (32)

Notes on Action

Naval General Service MedalE-WIKI
A Naval General Service Medal Clasp was authorised for this action in 1847

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