HMS Nautilus

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Nautilus, 1807
Type: Ship-sloop ; 6th rate ; Armament 18
Launched : 1807 ; Disposal date or year : 1823
Notes:

21 Jul 1812 captured the French privateer Brave in the Mediterranean.

7 Feb 1813 captured the French privateer Leonilde.

24 May 1813 captured the French privateer Columbe in the Mediterranean.

18 Aug 1813 : 5 July 1822 notice is given to the officers, and companies of His Majesty's ships Undaunted and L'Espoir, that a distribution of their shares of the bounty-money granted for eighty-three men, captured in three pinnaces, in the Bay of Cussis, on the 18th August 1813, will be made at No. 22, Norfolk-Street, Strand, on the 12th July instant; etc. HM sloop Redwing was a joint captor, but sharing by agreement (except some particular officers) with the Nautilus, her proportion will be paid over to the Treasurer of Greenwich-Hospital to adjust, no prize list for the Nautilus being furnished.

28 Sep 1814 departed Deal for Sheerness.

21 Dec 1814 departed Yarmouth for the coast of Holland with specie to pay British troops.

6 Jan 1815 departed Deal for Portsmouth.

20 Mar 1815 arrived Falmouth with a convoy from Plymouth and Torbay to join the Warrior at this port.

11 Oct 1820 the Admiralty announced that the commanding officers of the following vessels now cruising on the Jamaica Station, ie the Euryalus, Tamar, Confiance, Ontario, Bann, Parthian, Sophie, Nautilus, and Raleigh, have been supplied with their instructions, should the right circumstances arise, authorising them to detain Portuguese or Spanish vessels in accordance with the several Treaties with foreign powers for preventing the Illegal Traffic in slaves with those countries.

27 Nov 1821 Is in commission and based in the West Indies.

20 Dec 1821 at Port Royal, Jamaica, and understood to be under orders to depart the West Indies for England in the near future.

?? Dec 1822 arrived Turk's Island with a piratical brig which she had captured after a chase of 13 hours. She had 54 prisoners on board and was bound for New Providence for trial. The pirate ship was in the act of robbing an American vessel when the Nautilus hove in sight.