HMS Julia

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Julia, 1806
Type: Brig Sloop ; Armament 16
Launched : 1806 ; Disposal date or year : 2 Oct 1817
Disposal Details : Wrecked off Tristan d'Acunha: 55 of crew, including all the officers but captain and two midshipmen, perished. Com. Jenkin Jones
Notes:

30 Aug 1808 captured the French privateer Petit Decide on the Leeward Island station.

1 Sep 1809, arrived Barbadoes from St. Pierre.

10 Feb 1811 was at Bermuda when the Halifax departed for Spithead.

10 April 1812 remains Bermuda .

28 Jul 1812 arrived Spithead with dispatches, from America.

8 Dec 1815 departed Spithead for St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope with dispatches &c.

4 Sep 1816 at James Town, St. Helena, in the roads.

circa late Jul 1817 remains Ascension.

5 Sep 1817 remains Ascension.

Tristan da Cunha 1/2 Oct. 1817 Wrecked off Tristan d'Acunha: 55 of crew, including all the officers but captain and two midshipmen, perished or, only the Captain, 2 midshipmen and about 21 crew were saved, depending on source.

Admiralty Office 17 Dec 1817 A list of Officers, Seamen, and Royal Marines, belonging to HM sloop Julia, which was cast away on the island of Tristan da Cunha, on the night of the 1 Oct :-
People saved:
Jenkin Jones, Commander ; Charles William Browne, and Henry Foster Mills, midshipmen - Total 3.
Seamen and Marines. Hugh Dealy, Charles Bonasny, Wm. Perrie, Daniel Sullivan, John Davis, J. M'Cabe, William Dodd, James Jackson, Henry Courtenay, J. Giddens, J. Harrison, Richard Adare, William Ellsly, N. Silvie, James Shrieves, Robert Yaxley, G. Ferguson, J. Broadbent, Samuel Poole, J. Reynolds, Isaac Wilson, Robert M'Gee, John Fifees, Lawrence Tye, John Welsh.- Total, 25.
Men and Officers Left Behind at Ascension.
Lieutenant Albany H. Wilson, acting in the command of Ascension ; Edward Hare, private marine; Joseph Anstead private marine.
Missing Seamen.-
Edward Watson, Thomas Stop, John Welsh, John Hanton, James Jolly, Edward Franklin, Richard Hamilton, Corporal Dickenson (marine), Richard Phillips William Thomas (2).- Total 10.
People drowned and buried.
Henry Mechi, lieutenant ; Neil Malcolm, lieutenant; William M'Beath, master; John Enright surgeon; Henry Suter, purser; Francis Conway Seymour, midshipman ; Charles Over, Midshipman ; George Standish, midshipman; Henry Judd, captain's clerk ; John Robinson, gunner ; Richard Gibson, boatswain ; William Toddridge, carpenter. Total 12. Seamen,-
William Gordon, Edward Flyun, Leonard Jones, Charles Jones, Samuel Evron, G Godfry, C. Peters, William Thomas (1), Edward Clodd, John Roberts, James Williams, P. Williams, James Carr, John Wellington, William Kidley, James Standeven, Richard M'Donald, N. Johnson. J. Hammond, Samuel Lyons, John Cree, William Lennard, James Cook, James Wilmot. Total 24.
Marines.
Sergeant Finder, Corporal Peatfield, James Orr, William Disney, H. Livery, J. Whicerly, James Childs, Robert Wells, Thomas Steel -Total, 9.
Mrs. Dickenson was also lost.
(Siged) Jenkin Jones Jones, Commander of his Majesty's sloop Julia.