Union, 1799
Type: Hired Cutter ; Armament 12
Hired : 1799 ; Disposal date or year : 1801
Notes:

N.B. You may note that the name of the vessel appears as Unicorn in some instances.....I suspect that this might be an error by the editors of the Naval Chronicle since I can find no trace of a cutter Unicorn, and both officers concerned also served in the Union at the right dates. I've therefore noted the apparent error under a vessel with the name Unicorn, but have input the data here, under Union. I note that prize money was paid to the Union. The only problem I can see for this would be if the Unicorn cutter, if there was such a vessel, may have replaced the Union for a short period ? FWIW I note that a Lieutenant Elliot / Eliot also served on board the lugger John and the lugger Plymouth about the same dates, in summer 1800 and wonder if there might have been a slight hiatus around this period at the Naval Chronicle, or in the information that was supplied to them ?

16 Jan 1800 the frigate Nemesis, sloop Savage, lugger Nile, cutters Narcissus, Union, Lt. Guyon, and Stag in sight of or involved in the capture of the French Privateer lugger Le Renard, 14 guns, 2 swivels, and 65 men, Jean Jacque Fourmintin, Master, Privateer lugger Le Modere, and recaptured the English brig Atlas, from Lisbon ; the Union then being posted off Boulogne.

4 Feb 1800 recaptured of the Elizabeth West-Indiaman.

Circa Feb 1800 Lieutenant Guyon, of the Unicorn (should read Union) cutter, is appointed to L'Anacreon brig.

Circa Feb 1800 Lieutenant Henry Rowed appointed to the Unicorn (should read Union).

11 Mar 1800 departed Spithead the Unicorn cutter (should read Union), Lt. Rowed, on a cruise.

25 Apr 1800 arrived Spithead the Union cutter, Lt. Rowed, and the next day departed again on a cruise.

16 Jun 1800 arrived Spithead, from a cruise.

29 Mar 1801 the French privateer La Pluton, Charles La Niece, Captain, captured the ship Friendship. In the evening Lieutenant Rowed re-captured the Friendship and sent her into Portsmouth. The privateer La Pluton, having been captured by the Sheerness Hired Cutter.

17 Feb 1801 arrived at the Motherbank, and put under quarantine, the Frederick, from Alicant, with salt, detained by the Union cutter, Lt Rowed.

31 Mar 1801 arrived Spithead from a cruise.

1 Apr 1801 departed Spithead on a cruise.

1 May 1801 salvage money for the re-capture of the Friendship will be paid on the cutter's next arrival at Portsmouth.

1 May 1801 arrived Spithead from a cruise, Lt Rowed.

13 May 1801 departed Spithead this morning on a cruise.

24 Jul 1801 arrived Spithead from Dover.

27 Aug 1801 arrived Spithead from a cruise.

29 Aug 1801 departed Spithead with a convoy for Plymouth and The Hon. Captain John Murray passenger to join L'Oiseau frigate, at Plymouth.

2 Oct 1801 arrived Spithead the Union cutter, from a cruise.

3 Oct 1801 departed Spithead the Union cutter on a cruise.

26 Oct 1801 arrived Spithead the Bloodhound gun-brig, Lieutenant Bogue ; and the Union cutter, Lieutenant Rowed, from a cruise.

27 Jan 1802 arrived Plymouth the Union, armed tender, from Morlaix, where she'd been with invalided prisoners from this port, from the hospital ship Bienfaisant, Lt Chatham. She reported on conditions across the other side of the Channel, where provisions were reported to be cheap and plenty.

18 Feb 1802 the Union tender was paid off, and put out of the service. She sailed for Liverpool to her owners. Her men were put on board the Resolue slop ship.