HMS Tweed

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Tweed, 1807
Type: Ship Sloop ; Armament 18
Launched : 1807 ; Disposal date or year : 5 Nov 1813
Disposal Details : Wrecked in Shoal bay, Newfoundland crew, except fifty-two perished. Captain William Mather
Notes:

29 Feb 1808 captured the Spanish privateer Santissima Trinidad, 4 guns, 20 men, on the Jamaica station.

16 Mar 1808 captured the French privateer Aventure on the Jamaica station.

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.

Plymouth 26 Jan 1811 Came into harbour.

Deal 20 Mar 1811 departed on a cruise off the Texel.

Yarmouth 23 Apr 1811 departed on a cruise.

Yarmouth 2 Aug 1811 arrived and departed, with a convoy for the Baltic.

Sheerness 11 Sep 1811 departed to the Nore, with a convoy for the Baltic.

Harwich 15 Sep 1811 Put in due to unfavourable winds, with a convoy for the north.

Deal 13 Nov 1811 arrived from the Texel and departed for Portsmouth.

Yarmouth 7 Jul 1812 arrived from the Orkney Islands, where she parted with the Hudson's Bay ships and departed for the Downs.

Yarmouth 11 Aug 1812 arrived from off Heligoland.

Sheerness 25 Aug 1812 departed for the Baltic with a convoy.

Yarmouth 2 Sep 1812 Passed with the outward-bound Baltic convoy.

Yarmouth 4 Oct 1812 departed for the Nore.

Portsmouth 6 Nov 1812 arrived from the Baltic.

Portsmouth 22 Nov 1812 Takes convoy for Madeira, and the coast of Africa.

Portsmouth 8 Dec 1812 Got under weigh this morning to proceed with the convoy for Madeira, but was recalled by signal.

Portsmouth 8 Jul 1813 arrived from the coast of Africa.

Portsmouth 7 Sep 1813 Went out of harbour.

Portsmouth 29 Sep 1813 departed with a fleet for Newfoundland.

Falmouth 1 Oct 1813 arrived with a convoy from Portsmouth, bound to Newfoundland.