Spitfire, 1793
Type: Schooner ; Armament 6
Purchased : 1793 ;
Disposal date or year : Feb 1794 : Foundered or overset off St. Domingo: crew perished. Lieut. J. W. Rich.
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Spitfire, 1801
Type: Schooner ; Armament ?
Acquired : 1801 ? ;
Disposal date or year : 21 Aug 1801 : totally lost on the Sherhome Dubopham, Lt Campbell.
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21 Aug 1801 the Spitfire, King's schooner, Lieutenant Campbell, Commander, from Bombay, bound to the Red Sea, with dispatches, was totally lost on the Sherhome Dubopham, one of the African Islands, unknown to the English, and lately discovered by the inhabitants of the Seychelle Islands ; the crew and most part of her stores were saved. On the 2d of September, Lieutenant Campbell arrived at St.-Anne's island, one of the Seychelles, in a small boat ; he had been six days from the island on which the schooner was lost. The Sibylle delivered over to Lieutenant Campbell the Sophy schooner, to take in his crew and stores, and to proceed on his voyage to the Red Sea ; on the 3d, in the morning, Lieutenant Campbell sailed, and at three in the afternoon, the same day, La Sybille and La Chiffonne sailed.

21 Aug 1801 report of the loss of the Spitfire wrecked on a reef, as reported in the Naval Chronicle, which is off the Southern part of some African islands, at ten minutes past five in the morning : she was then going about four knots under her foretop-sail, and had sounded often during the night, and no ground with twenty fathom line a short time before she struck. On her striking, her masts were immediately cut away to prevent her oversetting, and soon after she was driven over the reef into a kind of sandy bason, and at low water her crew were able to walk on shore ; most of her stores and provisions were saved. On the 27th of August Lieutenant Campbell with four men, quitted the Islands in a small boat belonging to the schooner, with a view of procuring relief from the Seychelles Islands. On the 29th about nine A.M. they saw the principal Island, and arrived there on the 31st at five P.M. being in urgent want of water, of which they had only one bottle left. Lieutenant Campbell having landed and procured some cocoa nuts, quitted the shore, and soon after saw and went on board La Sybille in Mahe Roads. The African Islands on which the Spitfire was wrecked, are very small and low, situated about six leagues to the North of the bank which surrounds the Amirante Islands, and were discovered about six years ago, by some of the small vessels which belong to and navigate in the Seychelle Archipelago ; their vegetation consists only of a few shrubs, generally about four feet high, they abound however in turtle and sea birds, but there is no fresh water, although wells have been dug to the depth of 40 feet. Both islands are nearly covered with the sea at high spring tides.