HMS Swan and Hired Armed Cutter Swan

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Swan, 1767
Type: Sloop ; Armament 16
Launched : 1767 ; Disposal date or year : 1814
Notes:

1 Apr 1795 captured the French privateer Soci�t� on the Jamaica station.

12 Aug 1797 captured the Dutch privateer Goede Verwagting, sloop, 8 guns, 28 men, North Sea.

10 Sep 1800 Portsmouth, arrived the Swan, with the Commerce under convoy, from Halifax ; also the John, from New York, for Amsterdam, detained by the Swan.

1 Jan 1801 reported to be off the Isle of Wight with a convoy.

3 Feb 1801 departed Spithead to lay as a guard-ship off the Needles.

28 Mar 1801 arrived Spithead from the westward with the crew of the Scout sloop of war, wrecked on the Shingles, near the Needles.

May 1805 Portsmouth in Ordinary.

Portsmouth 30 Sep 1812 arrived from the Downs.

Portsmouth 27 Jan 1813 departed for the Downs.