Bordelais / Bourdelais / Bourdelois, 1799
Type: 6th rate ; Armament 24
Taken : off the coast of Ireland on 11 Oct 1799 ;
Disposal date or year : 1804
BM : 625 tons
Notes:

11 Oct 1799 R�volutionnaire captured the French privateer Bordelais, which was subsequently added to the British navy.

13 Jan 1800 Plymouth, went into dock to be fitted for service.

30 Jan 1800 Plymouth, has been commissioned, and given to Captain Manby, She was captured by the Revolutionaire, after a long chase of 48 hours and until then had beaten all our cruisers during the present war, and had captured 160 prizes in nearly 4 years.

13 Apr 1800 Plymouth, departed for Cork with the Galatea.

15 May 1800 Plymouth, went out of dock, having repaired the damages she received off the coast of Ireland.

2 Jun 1800 Plymouth, departed with the Neptune, Amelia, Amethyst, and Shannon, on a cruise.

28 Jul 1800 Plymouth, arrived from the westward islands. Off Corunna, she captured the Phoenix, a Danish schooner, from St. Thomas for Altona, but evidently bound to Bourdeaux, having a French pilot on board. She is laden with coffee, sugar, indigo, &c. By an officer it is learnt that she looked into Corunna and Ferrol the 12th and 14th ult. ; in Ferrol Harbour Captain Manby saw six sail of the line and five frigates, with topsail yards across.

5 Aug 1800 Plymouth, departed for the Downs.

7 Oct 1800 Portsmouth, arrived with the Terrible, from the Downs.

12 Nov 1800 Portsmouth, came into harbour with other vessels to repair the damage they sustained in the gales on Sunday last.

30 Nov 1800 Portsmouth, departed the Fairy, to Falmouth, to collect the outward-bound ships, who, with the Andromeda, and Bourdelais, will convoy them to the West Indies, as soon as the wind permits.

7 Dec 1800 Portsmouth, departed the Andromeda, and Bourdelais, with a convoy for the West Indies.

8 Jan 1801 off Palma, in a calm, I dispatched two boats under the orders of Lieutenant Barrie, in pursuit of a strange sail in the S.E. ; after a fatiguing row of fourteen hours, Lieutenant Barrie, at two P.M. with only one boat being up with the chase, boarded her with great gallantry, although opposed by ten Frenchmen, who kept up a smart fire from 4 x 4-pdrs.; she proved to be the Adventure of London, one of the convoy which had parted company in the first gale of wind ; the French prize-master was wounded by a cutlass, the only blood spilt on the occasion. Gaining information from the Adventure that on the same day she was captured by the Mouche privateer, of Bourdeaux, the Mouche likewise captured a valuable copper-bottomed ship, bound to Barbadoes, and as both vessels had orders to proceed to Santa Cruz, in Teneriffe, I considered it my duty to push for that port, and by plying hard with my sweeps all the 9th, I arrived off Santa Cruz on the morning of the 10th, when I had the pleasing satisfaction of rescuing the above mentioned British ship from the hands of the enemy ; she proved to be the Aurora of London.

16 Jan 1801 off Teneriffe.

29 Jan 1801 the capture of the French national brig Curieux, and subsequent loss.

31 Jan 1801 arrived Barbadoes, the merchant ship Aurora, Redman, master, with information regarding her capture by the French corvette La Mouche, 18, and the subsequent capture by the same vessel, of the Adventure, both vessels being retaken by the Bourdelais ; the Adventure being expected here shortly.

1 Feb 1801 Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes.

6 Apr 1801 R.-Adm Calder's squadron, seeking a French squadron, when plying through the Mona passage, fell in with the Thetis, and Bordelais ; supplied the latter with some provisions ; captured and destroyed a Spanish schooner. Finding the current setting strongly against the squadron bore up to the S.W.

3 Nov 1801 the Falmouth packet Leicester, Steel, arrived Port Royal, Jamaica, where the Santa Margarita, Crescent, Carnatic, Retribution, Topaze, Mosquito/Musquito, and Abergavenny were present. During the Leicester's stay at Port Royal the HM ships Bourdelais, Snake, Echo, Ambuscade, Tisiphone, Calypso, Juno, Sans Pareil, Melampus, Pelican, Captain, Goliah/Goliath, Brunswick, and Elephant arrived there.

19 Jan 1802 arrived Spithead the Ambuscade, 36, Captain the Hon. John Colvill, from Jamaica. She sailed from Port Royal on the 7th of December, and left there R.-Adm. Montagu, in the Sans Pareil, with H.M. ships Carnatic, Abergavenny, Crescent, Melampus, Juno, Circe, Bourdelais, and Tisiphone.

Circa 13 Jul 1802 Captain Barrie apptd to the Bourdelais.

11 Aug 1802 arrived Plymouth Sound La Bourdelais, 24, Captain Manby, from Jamaica, in forty one days. Left the fleet all well at Port Royal, but some of the islands were unhealthy. She just victuals and waters, and then goes to the eastward to be paid off.

12 Aug 1802 departed Plymouth Sound for Chatham, to be paid off and laid up in ordinary.