Alcmene, 1794
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 32
Launched : at Chatham : 1794 ; Disposal date or year : 29 Apr 1809
Disposal Details : Wrecked on a rock off Nantes: crew saved. Captain Wm. Hy. Brown Tremlett
Notes:

20 Aug 1796 Alcmene and others captured the French privateer Rochellaise whilst on passage to the Mediterranean.

6 Mar 1797 captured the French privateer Surveillant on the Irish Coast.

Weymouth 16 Jun 1797 departed with a convoy for Lisbon on Tuesday, but has put back due to the wind blowing from the wrong direction.

8 Jan 1798 Alcmene and others captured the French privateer Buonaparte on the Lisbon station.

12 Aug 1798 Emerald, Alcm�ne, and Bonne-Citoyenne arrive off Aboukir Bay.

19 Aug 1798 the Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure, Seahorse, Emerald, Alcm�ne, and Bonne-Citoyenne, leave Aboukir Bay to cruise off the port of Alexandria.

22 Aug 1798 captured the French gunboat L�g�re, with despatches for General Buonaparte, which were saved from a watery grave by two seamen : John Taylor and James Harding.

End of the year 1798 remains stationed off Alexandria.

21 Jun 1799 captured the French privateer Courageux near the Azores, or Western Islands.

22-25 Jun 1799 long chase and capture of the large French privateer Courageux, of Bordeaux.

18 Jul 1799 entered the port of Vivero, assisted by the lugger-privateer Ph�nix, and captured the large merchant vessels Felicidad, and the brig Bisano.

16 Aug 1799 captured the French brig letter de marque Les Deux Amis, 6 guns and 60 men, bound from France, to St. Domingo.

15-16 Oct 1799 the chase of the Spanish frigates Santa-Brigida and Thetis, the latter with �311,690 sterling onboard, and their subsequent capture by the Naiad, Ethalion, Alcm�ne, and Triton.

14 Nov 1799 Plymouth went up the harbour to refit.

14 Jan 1800 Plymouth, The nett prize money of the dollars taken on board the St. Brigida and Thetis Spanish galleon frigates, captured by the Triton, Alcmene, Naiad, and Ethalion, was paid this day by their respective agents, and is, exclusive of all expences, as follows : Captains �40,730 ; Lieutenants �5,091 ; Warrant officers �2,468 ; Midshipmen and their class �791 ; Able and ordinary seamen and marines �182. There still remains the nett produce of the hulls, stores, masts, rigging, &c. of the 2 frigates to be accounted for.

15 Jan 1800 Plymouth, went into the Sound, the Alcmene, 32, Capt. Digby, and Renard, 18.

21 Jan 1800 Plymouth, departed for Torbay.

5 Feb 1800 Plymouth, arrived the Terpsichore, Alcmene, and Thames 32.

16 Feb 1800 Plymouth, departed on a cruise;

20 Feb 1800 Plymouth, the Doris and Alcmene have sent into Falmouth the Mercury, letter of marque, from Leghorn to London, with a valuable cargo of silks and bale goods. She had been captured on her passage by a French privateer of 12 guns, having weakened her crew to man a privateer, two seamen on board the Mercury joined the French prisoners, and seized the ship from the Captain and crew, and were proceeding to L'Orient, when the Doris and Alcmene hove in sight, and recaptured her.

20 Mar 1800 Plymouth, letters received from the Alcmene, state she was well, cruising on the Spanish coast.

2 Apr 1800 Portsmouth, arrived the Alcmene, Captain Digby, from Lisbon.

27 Apr 1800 Plymouth, arrived from a cruise.

12 May 1800 Plymouth, arrived the Alcmene, having struck on the Black Rocks near the Penmarks, where she lost her rudder. She was in imminent danger of being wrecked, but got off without any other damage ; the Diamond frigate, convoyed her safe into port. In turning up Hamoaze this evening, the Alcmene missed stays, lost her steerage way, and drifting to leeward by the strength of the tide, she tailed ashore on the rocks of Two Coves under the West Hoe : fortunately the tide flowing, and the wind blowing briskly at E. she got off in about an hour, and arrived safe at her moorings in Hamoaze.

30 Jun 1800 Plymouth, orders came down for the 23d, or Royal Welsh Fuziliers, to embark on board the Elephant, and the Alcmene, to join the troops on the Isles of Hodic and Houat.

25 Oct 1800 Plymouth, arrived the Alcmene.

13 Jan 1801 arrived Spithead with 21 transports under convoy of the Brilliant, containing part of the 9th and 52d regiments from Lisbon. The convoy departed Madrid under the command of the Alcmene, who transferred the vessels to the Brilliant, Capt Paget, in the Bay of Biscay.

7 Feb 1801 arrived Falmouth from a cruise off the coast of Spain, and in the process picked up one of the vessels that formed a part of the convoy supervised by the Fly, when they came into contact with a French squadron of 6 ships, including several of the line, off Cape Finisterre, and were instructed by the Fly to disperse.

10 Feb 1801 departed Falmouth on a cruise.

24 Feb 1801 remains in Torbay.

28 Feb 1801 departed Torbay, L'Immortalite, and Alcmene, frigates, Magaera, fire ship, and Dolly, cutter, to join the Channel Fleet.

2 Mar 1801 arrived last evening at Plymouth Sound the Danish ship Jomfre Valena, Jobs, master, laden with wine, brandy, fruit &c., bound from Malaga to Hambro', detained by the Alcmene.

4 Mar 1801 arrived Spithead from the Channel fleet.

14 Mar 1801 departed Spithead for the Downs.

15 Mar 1801 departed the Downs for N. Yarmouth.

16 Mar 1801 arrived N. Yarmouth the frigate Alcmene, with the sloop Favourite, La Jalouse, brig and Trimmer, Fire Vessel ; and Meteor, Wrangler, Ready, Safeguard, and Pincher gun brigs.

10 Aug 1801 arrived Spithead from the Baltic as a part of a Fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Pole.

10 Sep 1801 departed Spithead the Alcmene, with a convoy for Halifax and Newfoundland.

11 Sep 1801 passed by Plymouth to the westward, the large East-India, Straits, and Newfoundland fleets, outward-bound, under convoy of the Triumph, and Alcmene, with a fine breeze at S. E.

20 Oct 1801 has reportedly arrived Newfoundland.

Circa 15 Nov 1801 was supposed to be departing Newfoundland, for Portugal.

18 Dec 1801 arrived Spithead the Alcmene, from Newfoundland, but last from Lisbon, Captain Osborn, late of the Ramilies, came passenger from Lisbon.

30 Jan 1802 departed Spithead the Alcmene, 34, Captain Lambert, for Cowes, reputedly on the look out for smugglers.

27 May 1802 arrived Spithead from Cowes.

Circa 13 Jul 1802 Captain Stiles is appointed to the Alcmene.

19 Jul 1802 head money due to those present at the Engagement at Copenhagen, on the 2d April 1801, due for payment.

21 Jul 1802 departed Spithead the Diamond, Revolutionaire, Magicienne, Pomone, Alcmene, and Alarm frigates, Sophie, and Racoon, sloops of war, for Lymington and Jersey, to convey the Dutch troops from those places to Cuxhaven.

25 Aug 1802 arrived in the Downs, the Fortun�e, Diamond, Alcmene, and Autumn, with Dutch troops from Lymington, for the Texel.

1 Sep 1802 passed by the Downs at the back of the Goodwin Sands this morning : the Glenmore, Amelia, Galatea, and Oiseau, frigates ; and the sloops Sophie and Racoon, bound from the Texel to the westward.

9 Sep 1802 passed through the Downs for the Texel.

24 Sep 1802 arrived Spithead, from the Texel.

27 Sep 1802 at Spithead under orders for Jersey.

2 Oct 1802 remains Spithead.

12 Oct 1802 departed Spithead, the Alcmene, Capt Stiles, for Jersey with troops.

18 Oct 1802 arrived in the Downs from the westward.

20 Oct 1802 the 70th Regt disembarked from the Alcmene, Sophie, and Raven, and were marched to Dover Castle.

26 Oct 1802 arrived Spithead last night, from Jersey, last from the Downs.

4 Nov 1802 passed through the Downs for Sheerness.

7 Nov 1802 passed through the Downs from Sheerness to Plymouth.

9 Nov 1802 came into Plymouth Sound with the remainder of the 9th regiment of foot, the Alcmene, 36, and Revolutionaire, 44, from Sheerness : they had so fine a wind, that those frigates had only a passage of 32 hours to anchor in the Sound.

14 Nov 1802 departed Plymouth the Alcmene, 36, and Revolutionaire, 44, to the eastward.

15 Nov 1802 the Alcmene has been commissioned at Sheerness by Hon Capt Stewart.

19 Nov 1802 departed Spithead for Plymouth.

27 Nov 1802 arrived Plymouth Sound.

27 Nov 1802 Lt Col Dyer, and 200 Royal Marines, embarked on board the Alcmene, to do the duty at the Portsmouth Dockyard.

30 Nov 1802 departed Plymouth Sound for Spithead yesterday forenoon.

2 Dec 1802 arrived Spithead with Royal Marines, under Colonel Dyer, from Plymouth, to do the dockyard duty at this port.

14 Dec 1802 came into Portsmouth harbour, to be repaired.

23 Jan 1803 remains in Portsmouth harbour, being repaired.

28 Jan 1803 the Alcmene, Capt J. Stiles, was paid off and recommissioned.

13 Mar 1803 has been ordered out of harbour to Spithead.

17 Mar 1803 is to depart Spithead for the Downs when she has completed her complement.

27 Jun 1803 arrived Spithead, from a cruise.

1 Jul 1803 a court martial was held on board the Gladiator, at Portsmouth, on John Desmond of the Alcmene, for robbing one of the prizes captured by that ship of several serons of indigo ; and the prisoner being found guilty he was sentenced to 300 lashes round the fleet, and forfeit his prize money. Desmond was noted as being an old and notorious offender who had been on one of the hulks for 7 years and at the last assizes was tried for stealing, and then escaped merely though a flaw in the the indictment.

1 Jul 1803 departed Spithead on a cruise.

7 Nov 1803 arrived Spithead from a cruise.

13 Nov 1803 arrived Spithead the Maria Emilie schooner, prize to the Alcmene.

20 Nov 1803 departed Spithead with a convoy for Guernsey.

3 Mar 1804 arrived Spithead, from a cruise of four months on the coast of France, which included some pretty terrific gales, without receiving any material damage, the Alcmene, Capt Stiles.

16 Mar 1804 departed Spithead for Guernsey.

6 Jul 1804 arrived Spithead from Guernsey.

7 Jul 1804 came into Portsmouth harbour this evening from Spithead.

14 Aug 1804 departed Portsmouth harbour for Spithead.

21 Aug 1804 departed Spithead for the Guernsey station.

Circa 19 Dec 1804 whilst lying in Guernsey Roads the weather was so bad the Niobe had to cut away her main and fore-masts and mizen top, and the Thisbe and Sylph were totally dismasted by the weather and in danger of driving on the rocks ; the Pigmy cutter parted her cables and drove on shore at the back of the South Pier, but has since got off. The Niobe has since arrived at Plymouth. The Severn, despite every effort, ran on shore in Granville Bay, Jersey and was lost. The Alcmene was similarly threatened, but managed to ride out the gale.

May 1805 Cruising, Channel

4 Jan 1807 captured the French privateer Courier on the Home station.