Albanaise, 1800
Type: Brig sloop ; Armament 14
Captured : from the French 1800 ;
Date given up to the enemy : 23 Nov 1800
Disposal Details : Captured by her crew mutinying and carrying her into Malaga. Captain Fran. Newcombe.
Notes:

Late 1800 a mutiny is reported by the Naval Chronicle to have taken place on board the bomb vessel Thunder, Captain Francis Newcombe, and the ship carried into Bilboa, in Spain, but can find no mention of this elsewhere, so reckon it must have been confused with the mutiny which took place on board the brig Albanaise on 23 Nov 1800 which was taken into Malaga and given up to the Spanish.

20 Sep 1800 the Spanish vessel La Virgen del Rosario ; taken by the Albanaise on the Mediterranean Station.

9 Oct 1800 the Santa Maria trebaccolo, from Barre bound to Ferraro, laden with linseed ; cleared by Albanaise on the Mediterranean Station.

17 Jun 1801 a Court-Martial assembled on board His Majesty's Ship, off Alexandria.........The Court pursuant to an order from the Right Hon. Lord Keith, K. B. etc. dated the 7th day of June, 1801, and addressed to Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Rear-Admiral of the White, &c. proceeded to inquire into the circumstances of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's late ketch, the Albanaise, on the night of the 23 Nov, 1800 when she was carried into the port of Malaga, and to try Captain Newcombe and his Officers for their conduct on that occasion : and the Court having heard the evidence of the Officers called on (except that of Lieutenant Wm. Prosser Kent, late of the Albanaise), and having maturely and deliberately weighed and considered the whole, are of opinion, that the capture of His Majesty's late ketch the Albanaise, was occasioned by a Mutiny of the major part of the crew of the said vessel (many of whom were foreigners), who rose upon the Officers, on the evening of the 23 November last, and having obtained possession of the vessel, carried her into a Spanish Port : that the conduct of Captain Newcombe, on first discovering the intention of the Mutineers, was highly spirited and Officer like, having resisted until wounded and overpowered ; that Mr. Lewyn, the gunner, was active in obeying his Captain's orders, until he was badly wounded : that the other Officers, being surprised and prevented from coming upon deck, were incapable of resistance ; the Court doth, therefore, honourably acquit Captain Newcombe of all blame on account of the loss of the said sloop, doth highly approve of the conduct of Mr. Lewyn, the gunner, and doth acquit the other Officers, and they are hereby so sentenced accordingly ; and the Court having reason to believe that Mr. John Tyrroll, Master's Mate of the Albanaise, although absent in a prize at the time of the Mutiny, was privy to the intention, and did not reveal it ; and that Alexander M'kiever and Thomas Parsons were seen armed, doth recommend a future inquiry into their conduct. ; and Lieutenant William Prosser Kent having, in the course of the trial, refused to give his evidence upon oath, from mistaken religious motives, the Court is of opinion that he is unfit to hold a Commission in His Majesty's Service.
(Signed) J. D. Boyes, Officiating Judge Advocate.

4 Jan 1802 on Saturday last a man by the name of Godfrey was brought down to Sheerness by an Admiralty Marshall, and sent on board the guardship at the Nore, the Zeeland, to be take his trial on a charge of mutiny on board the Albanaise on 22 Nov 1800. It has blown hard all day, from the ENE, and continues with snow.

19 Jun 1802 a Court-Martial was held on board the Donegal, at Portsmouth harbour, for the trial of Mr. J. H. Terrell, late Master's Mate of HM ship Albaneise, Capt. Newcombe, (which was carried by the crew into an enemy's port,) on a charge of being suspected to have been privy to the mutiny, and for not disclosing it to the Captain. It appeared from the evidence of Capt. Newcombe, the only witness called, that Mr. Terrell had been sent from the ship in a prize the day preceding the mutiny, and that there was no other reason for supposing he had been privy thereto, but that Godfrey, the head mutineer, who is since executed, had declared at Malaga, that Mr. Terrell knew of it, and would have been concerned if he had been in the ship. The Court, after hearing the prisoner's defence, and the many certificates of good character given him by officers under whom he had served, both before and since his being confined as a prisoner, adjudged him to be honourably acquitted.
The case of this young man appears to be extremely hard ; merely on the suspicion thrown on his character by Godfrey, he has been transferred from ship to ship for upwards of eighteen months as a prisoner, by which means he has entirely lost his promotion in the Navy. It is however highly creditable to his character, that during his confinement on board several ships in the Mediterranean, such was the opinion of the officers commanding those ships, that they suffered him not only to go at large on board, but to take a very active part in upwards of 30 actions with gun-boats, and in cutting out vessels from enemy's ports.
After the above trial, T. Parsons, A. M'ever, and J. Marriott, late seamen belong to Albaneise, were tried for aiding and assisting in the above mutiny ; when the Court were of opinion, that the charges had been in part proved against them, but in consideration of the age and length of confinement of Parsons and his good character, and the other two prisoners, who voluntarily returned to Gibraltar from Malaga with the Captain, the Court adjudged them all to be mulcted of their pay, and imprisoned three months in the Marshalsea, M'ever to receive 50 lashes, and Marriott 100.

27 Sep 1802 a Court Martial was held on board the Centaur, in Hamoaze, for the trial of three of the mutineers of the Albanaise, of 18 guns, Captain Newcombe, charged with being concerned in mutinously rising on the officers, and carrying the ship into a Spanish port in the Mediterranean, last year, and selling her and her stores to the enemy. After the evidence for the prosecution was gone through, and the prisoner's defence read to the Court, and it appearing that P. Kennedy was the principal ringleader, he was remanded for trial separately, one seaman was acquitted, and one sentenced to receive 300 lashes from ship to ship.

1 Oct 1802 one of the mutineers of the Albanaise, 18, Captain Newcombe. received a severe flogging round the fleet at Plymouth, and was afterwards sent for cure to the Royal Naval Hospital.

5 Oct 1802 a Court Martial was held on board the Centaur, in Hamoaze, for the trial of Patrick Kennedy, seaman, of the Albanaise, of 18 gun, Capt. Newcombe, for assisting in a mutinous manner to run away with the said ship, and selling her and her stores to the Spaniards. The charges being fully proved, he was sentenced by the Court to be hung at the fore-yard-arm, of such ship as the Lords of the Admiralty shall direct and appoint in the harbour. He was immediately committed to the custody of the Provost Marshal for security.

15 Oct 1802 the death warrant signed by his Majesty, came down to Plymouth from London for the execution to-morrow of P. Kennedy, the mutineer of the Albanaise, 18, Captain Newcombe, sentenced for death about a week since ; he is to be executed to-morrow at 10 A.M. on board the Hussar, 36, Captain P. Wilkinson.