Hired Armed Lugger Speculator

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Speculator, 1803
Type: Hired armed lugger ; Armament 10
Re-hired : 1803 ; Disposal date or year : 1813
Notes:

29 Aug 1803 has departed for the Nore following having repairs carried out to her bowsprit and head works, after the Zealand ran foul of her Saturday afternoon at the Nore.

3 Sep 1803 departed Sheerness.

4 Sep 1803 remain in the Downs the Monarch, Adm Lord Keith ; Utrecht, R.-Adm Montague, Capt Rogers ; Raisonable, Capt Hotham ; Immortalite, Capt Owen ; Ranger, Capt Coote ; Sulphur, Capt McLeod ; and Conflict, Mariner, Speculator, gun brigs ; the transports Comet, Canada, Aurora, and Minerva, under the command of Capt Watson, RN.

6 Sep 1803 departed the Downs, the Conflict, Mariner, Speculator, gun brigs, and the Millbrook schooner for on a cruise.

17 Nov 1803 arrived in the Downs the Basilisk, Milbrooke, and Speculator from a cruise off Calais.

23-25 Apl 1805 was a part of a squadron which captured off Boulogne the Dutch Armed Schuyts Nos 43, 45, 48, 52, 54, and 57, and the unarmed Transport No 3.

May 1805 North Sea.

June-Dec 1806 ADM 41/76 hired armed vessels, ships' musters for Speculator.

14 Mar 1810 recaptured the Trial.

7 Jul 1810 prize money for the recapture of the Trial due for payment.

7 Oct 1810 in company with the gun-brig Bloodhound when the French privateer La Becassine was captured.

1 Mar 1811 Reported as being based at the Downs, Lt. George Broad.

Deal 21 May 1811 departed to the eastward.

Yarmouth 28 Jul 1811 departed with convoy of transports for the Downs.

Deal 27 Aug 1811 arrived from cruising off North Foreland.

Deal 2 Sep 1811 departed to cruise off the North Foreland.

Deal 1 Oct 1811 departed for Yarmouth.

Deal 20 Oct 1811 arrived with a convoy from Yarmouth.

Yarmouth, 7 Nov 1811 notice is given to the Speculator, and other vessels that Accounts of sales of 6 prizes, with the Accounts of expences incurred by the capture of 6 vessels have been deposited in the Registry of the Court of Admiralty.

Deal 13 Nov 1811 departed with a convoy, for Harwich.

Deal 25 Dec 1811 departed with the convoy of outward-bound coasters and colliers for Portsmouth.

Deal 30 Dec 1811 departed with a convoy for Portsmouth.

Deal 11 Jan 1812 arrived from a cruise.

Deal 23 Jan 1812 departed with a convoy of outward-bound coasters and colliers, for Portsmouth.

Portsmouth 24 Jan 1812 arrived with a convoy from the Downs.

11 Feb 1812 prize money resulting from the capture of the French privateer La Becassine due for payment shortly.

Deal 1 Mar 1812 departed with a convoy for Portsmouth.

Portsmouth 1 Apr 1812 arrived with a convoy from the Downs, and has returned.

Deal 2 Apr 1812 arrived from Portsmouth.

Portsmouth 14 Apr 1812 arrived.

Deal 28 May 1812 Preparing to sail with the outward-bound convoy.

Plymouth 8 Sep 1812 departed with a convoy for the Downs.

Deal 30 Sep 1812 departed with a convoy for Portsmouth.

Deal 22 Oct 1812 Put back by contrary winds with the convoy that departed yesterday.

Falmouth 24 Jan 1813 arrived from Corunna, with dispatches.

Plymouth 23 Mar 1813 departed with a convoy for the East.

Plymouth 21 Aug 1813 arrived from St. Sebastian's.

Penzance 16 Sep 1813 Has arrived and landed dispatches from St. Andero.