HMS Caroline was a 14-gun
brig, formerly the French ship Affronteur, that
HMS Doris captured in 1803 and that was probably broken up in 1807. Accounts differ as to whether she was commissioned or instead was a
hired vessel serving the Royal Navy under contract.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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