Pickle, 1801
Type: Armed Tender ; Armament ?
Acquired : 1801 ; Disposal date or year : 1801 ?
Disposal Details : disposed of following the Peace of Amiens ?
Notes:

His Majesty's armed tender Pickle, Curacoa Harbour, 13 Oct 1801.
I beg leave to inform you, that on the 25 Sep, at eleven A.M. Isle of Ash (St. Domingo), bearing N.W. distance five or six miles, being on the starboard tack, a strange sail was discovered under the land bearing down upon us with an English ensign flying. When, within pistol shot of the Pickle, the enemy hoisted Spanish colours, and commenced an action, which continued with a brisk fire from both sides for an hour and a quarter, when they attempted to board, but without effect ; finding themselves foiled in this they hauled their wind, and made sail from us ; we wore and stood after them, but, to my great mortification, they were so much our superior in sailing, that, after a chase of one hour and a half, I found it fruitless to continue it.
It is with extreme regret that I am to inform you Lieutenant Greenshields was killed forty minutes after the commencement of the action, having received a musket ball through his body. Our sails and rigging have suffered a good deal, and I am sorry to add that Mr. Pearce, Midshipman, with seven men and myself, were wounded. From the great superiority of the enemy's force to ours, the Pickle only having thirty-five men (including Officers and boys, and of these three were rendered unserviceable through sickness), I hope the exertions used during the action, as well as those made to come up with the enemy, will meet your approbation. The enemy was a large schooner-rigged vessel, mounting two twelve and two nine-pounders, and manned with about seventy men ; and I imagined must have been a French or Spanish privateer. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. Robert Hayer,
To: Francis John E. Nott, Esq.