HMS Belliqueux (1780)

warlike) was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 June 1780 at Blackwall Yard, London.

At the action of 4 August 1800, Belliqueux captured the French frigate Concorde.

After the Dutch Governor Jansens signed a capitulation on 18 January 1806, and the British established control of the Cape Colony, Belliqueux escorted the East Indiamen William Pitt, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, Sir William Pulteney, Comet to Madras.

The convoy included the Northampton, Streatham, Europe, Union, Glory, and Sarah Christiana.

[2] At Madras, the captains of the eight East Indiamen in the convoy joined together to present Captain George Byng, of Belliqueux, a piece of silver plate worth £100 as a token of appreciation for his conduct while they were under his orders.

Midshipman Augustus Brine (1769–1840), painted in 1782 while serving aboard his father's ship, HMS Belliqueux , being 13 years old.