HMS Superieure

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Superieure, 1803
Type: Schooner ; Armament 12
Taken : 1803 ; Disposal date or year : 1814
Notes:

6 Feb 1804 captured the French privateer Serpent.

22 Oct 1804 captured the French privateer Chasseur off Monte Christi.

May 1805 Jamaica Station

24 Jul 1805 captured the Spanish privateer El Santa Maria Magdalena, felucca, 1 gun, on the West Indies station.

30 Aug - 3 Sep 1806 officers and men from the schooners Stork, Sup�rieure, Flying-Fish, and Pike capture a Spanish fort, a felucca, a schooner, 4 privateers and 6 vessels with cargoes.

4 Sep 1806 captured the Spanish privateer St. John, 3 guns, 32 men, on the Jamaica Station.

17 Oct 1807 captured the French privateer Jopo L'Oeil on the Leeward Island station.

22 Apr 1808 Gor�e and Sup�rieure in action with two French 16-gun brig-corvettes Palinure and Pilade, with the Circe and Wolverine approaching.

8-10 Feb 1809 Asp, Sup�rieure, Latona, Horatio, and Driver, cruising to the southward of the Virgin islands, captured the French 40-gun frigate Junon, which was taken to Halifax, repaired, and commissioned under the same name in the British navy.

12-17 Apr 1809 a part of a British squadron, off the Saintes, West Indies, which chased a French squadron, and captured the French 74-gun d'Haupoult of 1871 tons, and, under the name of Abercromby, cruised for three or four years in the British service. 1 May 1835 a portion of the prize money resulting from this action due for payment : namely a dividend from the estate of the bankrupt agent Henry Abbott's : no doubt one of the many fraudsters who ripped off matelots in those days : officers and ratings being fair game.