HMS President

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President, 1806
Type: Frigate, 5th rate ; 38
Taken : 27 Sep 1806 ;
Disposal date or year : 1815
BM: 1148 tons
Notes:

27 Sep 1806 40-gun French frigate Pr�sidente captured by a squadron under R.-adm. Sir T. Louis, which included the Canopus, Despatch and Blanche, and was purchased into the Service.

3 Aug 1811 a part of the fleet involved in the invasion of Java, which terminated with the surrender of Dutch and French forces on 16 Sep. 31 Aug frigates Nisus, Pr�sidente, and Phoebe, and sloop Hesper, detached to take the seaport of Cheribon.

Plymouth 10 Apr 1813 arrived from from the Cape of Good Hope and remained in the Sound for two hours.

May - Aug 1813 the frigates R�volutionnaire and Pr�sidente, brig sloops Beagle, Despatch, and Challenger ; and schooners Holly and Juniper, and two gun-boats, stationed off the north coast of Spain to assist the patriots.

Leith 19 Jul 1813 arrived from the Nore and came up the Firth to Inchkeith on Saturday afternoon, and then ordered to the southward again by flag-ship in Leith Roads.

Portsmouth 25 Jul 1813 arrived from the Downs.

Portsmouth 28 Jul 1813 departed down to St. Helen's.

Portsmouth 29 Jul 1813 departed this morning with the convoy for St. Andero, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, with a fine breeze, with stores of every description, specie and troops for Lord Wellington's army.

Plymouth 6 Aug 1813 arrived from Portsmouth with a convoy of transports with troops and stores for St. Andero, put in by contrary winds.

Plymouth 9 Aug 1813 departed with convoy of transports with troops for St. Andero.

Plymouth 28 Aug 1813 Has detained and sent in the American schooner Marmion, Captain Barlowe from Nantz, for New York.

Plymouth 6 Nov 1813 departed for Cork.

Torbay 15 Nov 1813 arrived from Cork ; on coming into the Bay she ran foul of the brig Mary Jones, that she sunk just as she reached Brixham Pier Head. No lives lost.

Cork 10 Mar 1814 departed with a convoy for Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean.

Cork 19 Aug 1814 departed with Lord Beresford, for Lisbon.

Portsmouth 20 Sep 1814 arrived from Cork.

Plymouth 29 Oct 1814 departed with a convoy for the coast of Africa &c.

Greenock 25 Nov 1814 arrived this forenoon, and anchored at the tail of the bank.

1815 re-named Pi�montaise.