Voltigeur, 1798
Type: Sloop ; Armament 18
Taken from the French Apr 1798 ; late French privateer Audacieux ; Disposal date or year : 1802
BM : 409 Tons ;
Notes:

7 May 1799 in Hamoaze.

26 Jul 1799 Plymouth, departed to the eastward.

6 Aug 1799 Plymouth, arrived with a detained Swedish ship.

8 Aug 1799 Plymouth, departed on a cruise.

10 Aug 1799 Plymouth, arrived La Voltigeur, she spake a Persian last night W. off the Edystone. The master of which informed him that he was brought to on the 1st of August by a frigate, one of the combined fleet's, 45 leagues NW of Lisbon, steering NE the winds rather light and scanty. Captain S. immediately made for this port.

13 Aug 1799 Plymouth, departed for the Downs with the fleet [a convoy].

26 Aug 1799 Plymouth, arrived.

9 Sep 1799 Plymouth, arrived from a cruize.

13 Sep 1799 Plymouth, departed with the Parwell East-Indiaman, Captain Cameron, for the river, as a convoy.

27 Sep 1799 Plymouth, arrived with a retaken American.

13 Oct 1799 Plymouth, departed, the Plymouth, lugger, Lt. Elliot, and Voltigeur, 18, on a cruise.

16 Oct 1799 Plymouth, arrived from a cruise, with the Lydia, of New York, from Bourdeaux to Batavia, with a cargo of sundries and 18,000 dollars, supposed French and Dutch property. She was once an English vessel, and captured by the French.

26 Oct 1799 Plymouth, departed on a cruise.

7 Jan 1800 Plymouth, went up the harbour the Voltigeur, 18, Capt. Shortland.

27 Jan 1800 Plymouth, arrived. She experienced dreadful weather, and had one man washed overboard.

Circa Feb 1800 Captain T. G. Shortland, of the Voltigeur, son of Captain J. Shortland, commanding the Sea Fencibles at Hull, married Miss E. Tonkins, daughter of Peter Tonkins, Esq. Alderman of Plymouth.

12 Feb 1800 Plymouth, on the arrival of the letter to Mr. P. Symonds, broker to Capt. Newman of the Loire, he waited on Admiral Sir T. Paisley, who ordered Voltigeur, 18, Capt. Shortland, with a supply of spars and other necessary stores to her assistance. She departed this afternoon with a fair wind.

1 Mar 1800 Plymouth, arrived from a cruise, with the Indefatigable.

9 Mar 1800 Plymouth, departed with the Plymouth, lugger, and Sylph, on a cruise.

4 Apr 1800 Plymouth, arrived with seamen from Liverpool.

29 Apr 1800 Portsmouth, arrived from a cruise.

3 May 1800 Portsmouth, departed the Santa Margarita, and Maidstone, with [a convoy] the trade for Quebec and Halifax; and the Voltigeur with several ships for Newfoundland.

13 Aug 1800 Plymouth, arrived from Newfoundland, after a good passage, with three vessels under convoy with fish ; left the Island all well.

18 Aug 1800 Portsmouth, arrived the Voltigeur, 18, from having convoyed the homeward-bound Newfoundland ships.

Circa 1 Sep 1800 Capt Lenox Thompson, late of the Alecto (FS) is apptd to the Voltigeur, 14, vice Shortland.

7 Sep 1800 Portsmouth, departed with a convoy for Newfoundland and Halifax.

24 May 1801 arrived in the Tagus, from Newfoundland.

25 Jul 1801 was in the Tagus when the Falmouth packet Prince of Wales arrived from Falmouth.

31 Jul 1801 departed the Tagus.

4 Sep 1801 departed the Tagus on a cruise.

31 Oct 1801 the Falmouth packet Prince of Wales arrived in the Tagus and departed for Falmouth on the 16 Nov., and during this period the Superb, Phaeton, Leda, Voltigeur, Calpe, and Hydra, also arrived in the Tagus. The Superb, Leda, Calpe, and Hydra, remained at Lisbon, when the Prince of Wales sailed, the Phaeton and Voltigeur having already departed.

12 Dec 1801 arrived Spithead the Voltigeur, from Oporto. She was nearly lost off Scilly in the gale of wind of Tuesday last, in which she threw ten of her guns overboard, and received other considerable damage. She is put under quarantine [at the Motherbank].

14 Dec 1801 taken out of quarantine and moored at Spithead 21 Dec 1801 went into Portsmouth harbour to be paid off.

31 Mar 1802 is ordered to be paid off at Portsmouth.

27 Jul 1802 notice is given that the Voltigeur, copper-bottomed and copper braces and pintles, lying at Portsmouth, has been put up for sale.