F. S. Bell F. S. Bell Captain Frederick Secker Bell CB (17 August 1897 – 23 November 1973) of the Royal Navy was the commander of during the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939. He was educated at Matfield Grange, a prep school in Kent, and then at the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth. He served afloat in the battleship at the Battle of Jutland, as First Lieutenant of the destroyer in the Reserve Fleet at Devonport, 1923–25, and as executive officer of from 1935–38 and was promoted captain on 31 December 1938. He took command of in August
HMS Musquito (1799) HMS Musquito (1799) HMS "Musquito" (or "Mosquito") was a 12-gun schooner, previously a French privateer. The Royal Navy captured her in 1799. having just been lost to capture, the navy changed her name to "Musquito". During her brief service on the Jamaica station "Musquito" captured several merchantmen and a small armed vessel. The Navy sold her in 1802. The Royal Navy captured a privateer, possibly "Hunter", in the West Indies in 1799. At some point in May 1799, "Musquito" and captured a Spanish schooner from Port au Plat that was carrying dollars. In second-half of 1799, "Musquito" captured the French