| Naval History of Great Britain - Vol III |
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Appendix |
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No. 24.
See p. 214.
A list of ships of the line and frigates, late belonging to the British navy captured, destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt, during the year 1803.
| Gun |
|
Name. |
Commander |
How, when, and where lost. |
| Frigate |
|
|
|
|
| 38 |
(Z) |
Minerve |
Jahleel Brenton |
Captured, July 2, after having run aground near Cherbourg crew saved, but made prisoners. |
| Seine |
David Milne |
Wrecked, in the night of June 5, on a sandbank near the Texel: crew saved. |
| 36 |
(C) |
Resistance |
Hon. P. Wodehouse |
Wrecked, May 31, on Cape St. Vincent: crew saved. |
| Shannon |
Ed. Leveson Gower |
Wrecked ins gale, December 10, under the batteries near Cape la Hogue : crew saved, but made prisoners. Hull of the ship destroyed by the Merlin's boats. |
| 28 |
(I) |
Circe |
Charles Fielding |
Wrecked, November 16, on the Lemon and Ower, North Sea, in chase of an enemy: crew saved. |
| Gun p. ship |
|
|
|
| 22 |
(N) |
Garland |
Frederick Cottrell |
Wrecked, November, off Cape Français, St. Domingo : crew saved. |
| Déterminée |
Alexander Becher |
Wrecked, March 26, on a sunken rock off the island of Jersey: crew and passengers (soldiers) saved, except 19. |
| Gun ship sloop |
|
|
|
| 18 |
(S) |
Surinam |
Robert Tucker |
Captured by the Dutch, at the island of Curacoa. |
| 16 |
(T) |
Calypso |
William Venour |
Foundered, August, by being run down in a gale, by one of a convoy coming from Jamaica : crew perished. |
| 14 |
(X) |
Avenger |
Frs. Jackson Snell |
Foundered, December, off the Weser : crew saved. |
| Gun brig sloop |
|
|
|
| 16 |
(a) |
Suffisante |
George Heathcote |
Wrecked, December 15, in a gale off Spike island, Cork harbour: crew saved. |
| Gun. Brig |
|
|
|
| 12 |
(g) |
Grappler |
A. Wantner Thomas |
wrecked, December 31, on the isles de Chosey, and hull destroyed by the French : crew saved, but made prisoners. |
| Gun-schooner |
|
|
|
| 12 |
(k) |
Redbridge |
George Lempriere |
Captured August, by a squadron of French frigates, near Toulon. |
| SS. |
(r) |
Porpoise |
Robert Fowler |
Wrecked August 17, on a reef of coral in the Pacific Ocean : crew saved. |
Appendix
Abstract
| |
Lost through the enemy |
Lost through accident |
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| |
Captured |
Destroyed |
Wrecked |
Foundered |
Burnt |
Total |
| Ships of the line |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ships under the line |
3 |
... |
9 |
2 |
... |
14 |
| Total |
3 |
|
9 |
2 |
|
14 |
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