HMS Pomone

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Pomone, 1805
Type: Frigate ; Armament 38
Launched : 1805 ; Disposal date or year : 14 Oct 1811
Disposal Details : Wrecked on the Needles when returning from the Mediterranean : crew saved. Captain Robert Barrie.
Notes:

May 1805 Downs.

5 Nov 1805 captured the Spanish privateer Golondrina, lugger, 4 guns, 29 men, on the coast of Spain.

25 Jan 1806 captured the Spanish privateer El Bengador, 1 gun 28 men, off Lisbon.

Portsmouth 31 Dec 1806 departed on a cruise to the Westward.

5 Jun 1807 ship's boats take 14 vessels off the harbour of St.- Gilles.

13 Jun 1809 Cape Bon bearing south-west distant seven miles, captured, after a short chase, the Neapolitan privateer Lucien-Charles.

21 Oct 1809 Pomone and Alceste, a part of the Mediterranean fleet off Toulon, having observed a small French squadron, with a convoy sail from the port for Barcelona, departed for the coast of Catalonia to inform Lord Collingwood.

23 Oct 1809 the convoy being sighted by the fleet later that day the Pomone cut out a part of the convoy, whilst the escorting ships were chased by the fleet.

30 Mar 1810 captured the French privateer Fortunee in the Mediterranean.

11 May 1810 captured the French privateer Jupiter.

18 Jan 1811 captured the French privateer Dubourdieu in the Mediterranean.

30 Apr - 1 May 1811 the frigates Pomone and Unit� and brig-sloop Scout destroyed the French store ships Giraffe and Nourrice, along with a merchant ship, in the bay of Sagone, island of Corsica.

24 June 1811 Reported to be off Corsica.

Malta 1 Jul 1811 Remains.