HMS Thracian

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Thracian, 1809
Type: Brig sloop ; Armament 18
Launched : 1809 ; Disposal date or year : 1829
Notes:

Falmouth 1 Feb 1811 arrived from a cruise off Cherbourg.

Portsmouth 9 Jun 1811 Is appointed to take the North America convoy.

Deal 1 Oct 1811 arrived with a convoy from the westward.

Plymouth 1 Oct 1811 arrived from Quebec (1 Sep), having parted company with her convoy in a gale on the 24th ult.

Portsmouth 26 Nov 1811 arrived.

27 Dec 1811 drove on shore, and wrecked a French privateer, name unknown.

Portsmouth 2 Jan 1812 arrived from off Cherbourg, having, on Tuesday, destroyed a French privateer.

Portsmouth 4 Mar 1812 Went out of harbour.

Portsmouth 12 Mar 1812 departed with a convoy for the Downs.

Portsmouth 20 Apr 1812 departed for off Cherbourg.

Portsmouth 30 Apr 1812 departed on a cruise.

27 Jul 1813 Sheldrake, Erebus, Thracian, and Woodlark captured the Forsoget, Stephanus, and Erskine. Sales accounts will be deposited in the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty, on the 15 Jan 1819.

Dover 9 Feb 1814 Has captured and sent in the French lugger privateer L'Emile, taken after a chase of three hours off St. Vallery.

Portsmouth 31 Mar 1814 arrived from a cruise.

Portsmouth 6 Apr 1814 departed with dispatches.

Portsmouth 11 Apr 1814 arrived.

12 Jul 1815, arrived Halifax, from Jamaica and Bermuda.

Portsmouth 8 Oct 1815 arrived from Jamaica with specie.

Mar 1822 Tyne and Thracian involved in anti-piracy duties in the West Indies.

31 Mar 1823 boats of the Tyne and Thracian capture the pirate vessel Zaragonaza.

Mata 31 Mar 1823 After a long chase ships' boats used to attack and capture the pirate vessel Zaragozana which had sought refuge here : 28 pirates were also captured and taken to Jamaica where they were convicted and hanged. See p. 235 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow.

20 Apr 1823 departed Kingston, Jamaica for Carthagena and Santa Martha.

22 Jul 1823 captured piratical felucca. NL Jul 1830.

19 Apr 1828 remains Cura�oa.

16 Mar 1829 was towed to the Shingles Shoal to assist in weighing the Nightingale schooner, lately sunk there.

16 Jul 1830 Prize money from capture of piratical felucca in 1823, now payable.