HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781. She served in three wars and made a number of notable captures before she was broken up in 1815.
H.M.S. Arethusa in company with the frigates, Flora, Melampus, Concorde and Nymphe, engaging the French frigates L'Engageante, Résolue, Pomone and Babet off Guernsey, 23rd April 1794 2007 CKS 07489 0031 000(024627)
Capture of Curacoa
H.M. frigate Arethusa inflicting the final blows on the French frigate Pomone, 23 April 1794, off the Channel Islands CSK 2016
Guernsey, 1794 RCIN 735022
View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1795 RMG PY0753
Capture of Pomona
Curacao, 1807 RCIN 735132 (cropped)
View of Curaçao, 1807
HMS Anson and HMS Arethusa capture the Spanish frigate Pomona (HMS Cuba, 1806)