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Appendix |
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A list of ships and vessels, late belonging to the British navy, captured, destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt, during the year 1795.
| Name. | Commander. | How, when, and where lost. | ||
| Gun-ship | ||||
| 98 | (H) | Boyne | George Grey | Accidentally burnt, May 1, at Spithead: crew saved. |
| 74 | (M) | Censeur | John John Gore | Captured, Oct. 7, by a French squadron, off Cape St.-Vincent. |
| (O) | Berwick | Adam Littlejohn. | Captured, March 7, by the French fleet in the Mediterranean. | |
| Illustrious | T. L. Frederick | Wrecked, March 14, in a gale, on the rocks near Avenge crew saved. | ||
| 44 | (V) | Diomede | Matthew Smith | Wrecked, Aug. 2, by striking on a sunken rock off Trincomalé, island of Ceylon: crew saved. |
| Gun. frig. | ||||
| 38 | (A) | Amethyst | Thomas Affleck | |
| 28 | (I) | Nemesis | Samuel H. Linzee | Captured, December 9, by the French frigate Sensible and corvette Sardine, in the road at Smyrna. |
| Gun p. sh. | ||||
| 20 | (O) | Daphne | Wm. B. Cracraft. | Captured Feb. 12, by a detachment of the Brest fleet. |
| G. b. slp. | ||||
| 14 | (b) | Flêche | Charles Came | Wrecked, Nov. 12, in San-Fiorenzo by: crew saved. |
| G. Sch. | ||||
| 6 | (n) | Flying-fish | Seton | Captured, in June, by two French privateers. |
| Float battery | ||||
| ... | (v) | Musquito | M'Carty | Wrecked, exact time unknown, on the coast of France, near Jersey : crew perished. |
| G. Dutch | ||||
| 4 | hey (w) | Shark | Watson | Captured, Dec. 11, by being run away with into La Hogue by her own crew. |
| ABSTRACT. | ||||||
| Lost the through enemy. | Lost through accident. | Total. | ||||
| Captured | Destroyed | Wrecked. | Foundered. | Burnt. | ||
| Ships of the line | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 4 |
| Ships under the line | 4 | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 8 |
| Total | 6 | ... | 5 | ... | 1 | 12 |