Whiting, 1804
Type: Schooner ; Armament 4
Launched : 1804 ; Disposal date or year : 22 Aug 1812
Disposal Details : Captured by the Diligent French privateer, coast of North America. Captain Lewis Maxey
Notes:

1804 Built at Bermuda of the pencil cedar, measure, BOM, from 75 to 78 tons ; mount four 12-pounder carronades, with a crew of 20 men and boys.

May 1805 Halifax Station.

1808 a less than complimentary comment on this type of vessel, which, although built in 1804, is included by William James in the volume for 1808, presumably in the light of the experiences of those who had departed them, and the results achieved or otherwise.

7 Mar - Apr 1809 had arrived in Basque roads. 11 Apr the use of fire ships, explosion-vessels, and Congreve rockets against the French fleet at Basque roads and the results thereof. 13 Apr further attempt made to destroy grounded French vessels.

Plymouth 26 Mar 1811 departed for Basque Roads.

Plymouth 30 Apr 1811 arrived from Cadiz.

Plymouth Dock 23 May 1811 departed on a cruise.

Plymouth 25 May 1811 departed to the Westward.

Lisbon 21 May 1811 departed for England.

Deal 6 Jul 1811 arrived from the westward.

Plymouth 30 Jul 1811 Sails with convoy to the Downs.

Plymouth 24 Sep 1811 departed to the westward.

Plymouth 23 Oct 1811 arrived from Falmouth with a convoy from Gibraltar (6 Oct) and has now departed for Portsmouth.

Plymouth 29 Oct 1811 departed, but put back again by contrary winds.

Plymouth 31 Oct 1811 departed on a cruise.

Plymouth 23 Nov 1811 arrived from Portsmouth.

Plymouth 20 Dec 1811 departed for Padstow, to assist the Bloodhound gun brig, on shore near that place.

Falmouth 25 Dec 1811 arrived from a cruise.

Scilly Isles 10 Jan 1812 arrived from a cruise in the Channel.

8 Jul 1812 with despatches for the American government, arrived in Hampton roads, and ignorant of the war was captured by the privateer-schooner Dash. She was subsequently restored, but was captured on her way to England by the French privateer brig Diligent.