HMS Grouper

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Grouper, 1804
Type: Schooner ; Armament 4
Launched : 1804 ; Disposal date or year : 21 Oct 1811
Disposal Details : Wrecked Guadeloupe.
Notes:

1804 Built at Bermuda of the pencil cedar, measure, BOM, from 75 to 78 tons ; mount four 12-pounder carronades, with a crew of 20 men and boys.

May 1805 Halifax Station

1808 a less than complimentary comment on this type of vessel, which, although built in 1804, is included by William James in the volume for 1808, presumably in the light of the experiences of those who had departed them, and the results achieved or otherwise.