Glorious First of June 1794 — Howe’s Atlantic Victory

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A line of battle under sail. Not an order of battle and not a likeness.

Overview

The action is already on HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. Royal Sovereign’s first major action was the Glorious First of June 1794 under Vice-Admiral Thomas Graves and Captain Henry Nicholls, where she fought in Howe’s line against the French Atlantic fleet.¹

The First Major Action

This note covers that first major action only. An outcome, a prize list, and an order of battle stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Keep Graves, Nicholls, and Howe. Do not invent an outcome from this page.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @hughes1957collingwood
• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview

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• HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview
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Footnotes

1. First major action Glorious First of June 1794 under Vice-Admiral Thomas Graves and Captain Henry Nicholls; Howe’s line against the French Atlantic fleet: HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview. ↩

2. Do not invent an outcome, a prize list, or an order of battle. ↩