HMS Achates (1809) was a 16-gun brig-sloop, originally the French Milan, launched in 1807, that HMS Surveillante captured on 30 October 1809, and that was sold in 1818.
A fictional HMS Achates, a 64-gun ship of the line, appears in Success to the Brave, the 15th novel in the Richard Bolitho series written by Douglas Reeman (writing as Alexander Kent).
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