Lady Charlotte, 1799
Type: Hired Brig ; Armament 12
Hired : 1799 ? ;
Disposal date or year : 1801
Notes:

Oct-Nov 1799 Lt. S. Halliday apptd., to the command of the hired schooner Lady Charlotte, 12.

16 Dec 1799 Plymouth, orders came down for the Lady Charlotte hired armed brig to get ready for foreign service.

19 Dec 1799 Plymouth, arrived the Lady Charlotte, Lt. Halliday, is countermanded for the Straights.

23 Dec 1799 Plymouth, departed the Lady Charlotte, for Falmouth.

7 Jan 1800 Plymouth, letters from the Lady Charlotte, 14 guns, Lt. Halliday, state his safe arrival there with a valuable convoy. [I wonder where �there� is ?]

17 Feb 1800 Plymouth, arrived.

27 Feb 1800 Plymouth, departed with a convoy for the westward.

25 Mar 1800 Plymouth, departed with the Eurydice, 24 guns, on a cruise.

17 Jul 1800 Plymouth, departed on a cruise.

3 Jan 1801 departed Plymouth with the cutter Sheerness and a convoy for the Downs.

26 Jan 1801 arrived Plymouth the Prussian galliot Endraght, Papan, bound from Dieppe to St. Sebastian, detained by the Lady Charlotte, Lt G Morris.

11 Feb 1801 the Start bearing N.N.W., 6 leagues, observed a lugger to leeward and gave chase, and after 2 hours came up with and captured the French privateer Espoir, 6 carriage guns (2 x brass 4 pdrs., and 4 x iron 2 pdrs., manned by 23 men, 2 days our from Cherbourg, not having made any captures. In view of the state of the weather, it blowing a gale, accompanied the vessel into Plymouth.

12 Feb 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound L'Espoir French lugger, of 6 guns, and 46 men, detained on 9 Feb., prize to the Lady Charlotte, Lt. Norris.

16 Mar 1801 the Sheerness and Lady Charlotte arrived Spithead with a Danish East Indiaman, from China to Copenhagen, of 1400 tons and 18 guns, with teas supposedly called the Crown Prince, which they had detained off Portland or off St. Alban's Head, depending on source, when in company with the Scout.

29 Mar 1801 went in chase of the Friendship Brig, taken by the Privateer La Pluton, Charles La Niece, Captain, which was retaken in the evening by Lieutenant Rowed, in the Union Hired Armed Cutter, and sent into Portsmouth and the privateer was taken by the Sheerness Hired Armed Cutter.

20 Apr 1801 weighed from Portland Roads at Six A.M., in company with the Sheerness Cutter on the Signal being made for an Enemy on the Coast : I stood to the Southward with the above Cutter, having information of a Schooner in that Quarter, which a Privateer had captured that Morning, which At Six P. M. on the 21st she was recaptured by the Boat of the Sheerness : on the 22d, at Two P. M., being then between Portland and Berry-Head, I observed a Lugger to windward, to which the Sheerness gave Chace, and I am happy to say, captured after a running fight of half an hour : from my situation, being little wind, I was unable to assist the cutter in her capture, and therefore sent my boats in chase, to the westward, of 3 brigs and a sloop, which they recaptured. They had been captured in the morning by the lugger which the Sheerness took ; but from the people on board them making their escape in their boats on the approach of ours, I was unable to obtain their names and cargoes, except one, which is the Generous Friends, a brig of about 200 Tons, with a cargo of Lead.

22 Apr 1801 [and another slightly different version...] arrived Plymouth Sound this morning the French lugger privateer La Prefect de la Manche, Captain Jean Francois Froment, of Cherbourg, 18 gun, taken on the 21st about 5 leagues off Lyme [Regis], by the Sheerness, 12, hired cutter, Lt JH Talbot, and the Lady Charlotte, hired armed brig, 12, Lt G Morris, which arrived here with 3 brigs from Liverpool, 2 of which were laden with lead, the other with provisions, and a sloop in ballast, all of which had been captured by the privateer on the morning of the 21st off the Start, together with a schooner in ballast, which was retaken and sent to Weymouth. The privateer had captured on the 10th p.m., the brig Flora, of and from Dartmouth, bound for Guernsey, in ballast, W Cuming, master, which had not been retaken, but her master is arrived here in the privateer. The Sheerness fired into the Frenchman, by which, unfortunately, one of the English captains and a seaman belonging to the Flora were killed.

22 Apr 1801 [and yet another slightly different version...] arrived Plymouth Sound the with a French lugger privateer, La Perfect de la Mouche, 14 guns and 70 men, Citizen Mussuerow, of Cherbourg, taken after a long chase between the Start and Portland, the Sheerness in company. They also retook a coasting convoy, of five vessels, her prizes, laden with lead ore and other articles of value, from Liverpool and Chester for London. Mr. Artey, of the brig Vigilant, while dining on board with Citizen Mussuerow, was unfortunately killed by a spent six-pound shot from the Sheerness, Lieutenant Talbot, which he fired in chace. The following is a list of ships captured by La Prefect de la Manche : the brig Goodwill, of Southwold, Pyett, master, bound from Liverpool to London, with lead ; the brig Generous Friends, of Southwold, Elmey, master, bound from Liverpool to London, with lead and pipe staves ; the brig Vigilant, of N. Yarmouth, Geo. Arters, master, killed in the privateer's cabin by a spent shot from the Sheerness, bound from Liverpool to London, with provisions ; sloop Friendship, of Ipswich, John Foley, master, in ballast, from Plymouth to Ipswich ; and schooner Sokim, of Colchester, John Howel, master, bound from Falmouth to Swanage, in ballast, all of which had been retaken.

26 Apr 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound the Petite Pirate, of four guns, a French privateer, prize to the Lady Charlotte, Lieutenant Morris.

4 May 1801 departed Plymouth Sound, with a convoy of merchantmen for the Downs.

16 Jun 1801 departed Dartmouth, on a cruise.

2 Oct 1801 came into Plymouth Sound the Danish brig Ameotta, Captain Mutlion, from Riga, with flax for Ferrol, detained by the ship Lady Charlotte, Lieutenant Morris ; she was soon set free and proceeded on her voyage.

3 Oct 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound from a cruise.

4 Nov 1801 came into Plymouth Sound, from Weymouth, the Lady Charlotte, hired armed brig, to be paid off, and in accordance with Admiralty Instructions would soon be returned to her owners in view of the prospective signing of the Peace of Amiens.