An epic last stand – HMS Acheron and HMS Arrow, 1805
An epic last stand – HMS Acheron and HMS Arrow, 1805 In a separate article we encountered the innovative sloop, HMS Dart, when she went into attack on the heavily defended French base at Dunkirk in 1800 (Click here for this article). HMS Dart and her sister HMS Arrow, were experimental vessels, never indeed to be repeated. They were the brain-child of [...]