Talk:List of ships captured in the 18th century

• Croyable ({{navy|France}}): A French privateer captured by Stephen Decatur commander of {{USS|Delaware|1798|2}}, off Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 7 July 1798. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 01:32, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Below are some sources that cover many of the ships mentioned in this list, included in cite-book format with a Url to the page where you can search the books for names, keywords, etc. Hope they help. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 03:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

• {{cite book |last=Cooper |first=James Fenimore |title=History of the navy of the United States of America |authorlink =James Fenimore Cooper |ref=Cooper |year=1826 |publisher=
  Stringer & Townsend, New York |pages=508 |oclc=197401914}} [http://books.google.com/books?id=WK3mWOlYYNsC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Url]

• {{cite book |last=Allen |first= By Gardner Weld |title=Our naval war with France

|ref=Allen2 |year=1909 |publisher=
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, New york |pages=323 |oclc=197401914}} [http://books.google.com/books?id=n2kSAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s Url]

• {{cite book |last=Hill |first=Frederic Stanhope |title=Twenty-six historic ships |ref=Hill |year=1905 |publisher=
  G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London |oclc=1667284 |pages=515}} [http://books.google.com/books?id=aAMKAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s Url]

Is there a similar list of ships sunk during this period? If so, could someone please add a link to that list? Thank you. Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors (talk) 00:11, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

The ships in Toulon briefly under British control and later recaptured by the French are listed here as "HMS". Yes, these vessels were under the control of the Royal Navy, but they were never commissioned into it. Does anyone have a reason for keeping the "HMS"? Jaa101 (talk) 04:43, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Needs massive clean-up. For the British flags, naval does not mean maritime, it means HMS, i.e., Royal Navy. For merchantmen the flag should generally be the red ensign, i.e., civil. For transports, the flag should be the blue ensign, i.e., government. Acad Ronin (talk) 12:50, 18 November 2019 (UTC) Generally, ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain|civil}}) this should replace ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain|naval}}). Acad Ronin (talk) 13:04, 18 November 2019 (UTC)