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HMS Amfitrite (1804)
HMS ''Amfitrite'' was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had previously served with the Spanish Navy before she was captured during the Napoleonic Wars and commissioned into the Royal Navy. The Admiralty renamed her HMS ''Blanche'' after she had spent just over a year as ''Amfitrite''. She was the only ship in the Navy to bear this specific name, though a number of other ships used the conventional English spelling and were named HMS ''Amphitrite''. Her most notable feat was her capture of ''Guerriere'' in 1806. ''Blanche'' was wrecked in 1807.
==Capture==
''Amfitrite'' was sailing off the Spanish Atlantic coast in November 1804, when the 74-gun third rate HMS ''Donegal'', then watching the port of Cadiz under the command of Captain Richard Strachan, spotted her. ''Donegal'' gave chase and after 46 hours, ''Amfitrite'' lost her mizzen-top-mast, which enabled ''Donegal'' to overhaul her.
''Donegal'' dispatched a boat and brought the Spanish captain aboard. Sir Richard did not speak Spanish and the captain did not speak English, so it was with difficulty that Sir Richard attempted to inform him that his orders were to return the ''Amfitrite'' back to Cadiz. Sir Richard allowed the captain three minutes to decide whether he would comply with the order, but after waiting for six minutes without an answer, opened fire on the ''Amfitrite''. The engagement lasted only eight minutes, and resulted in a number of deaths, including that of the Spanish captain, who fell to a musket ball. The ''Amfitrite'' surrendered and after being searched, was found to be laden with stores and carrying dispatches from Cadiz to Tenerife and Havana. She was taken over and later commissioned into the Navy as HMS ''Amfitrite''. In early 1805, she was commanded by Robert Corbet. She was renamed HMS ''Blanche'' on 3 December 1805.
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