A list of ships and vessels late belonging to the British navy, captured destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt, during the year 1807.

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  Appendix No. 3383

See p. 1.

A list of ships and vessels late belonging to the British navy, captured destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt, during the year 1807.

    Name Commander How, when, and where lost
Gun.ship
74     L     Ajax Hon. Hen Blackwood Burnt by accident, February 14, in the Mediterranean : 250 of her crew perished.
M Blenheim Sir Thos. Troubridge, Bt. v.ad.

Austin Bissell, captain		 Foundered, date unknown, off the island Rodrigue, East Indies: crew perished.
Gun.frig.
44 W Anson Charles Lydiard Wrecked, Dec. 29, on a sand-bank off Eelstone, Mount's bay, crew, except 60, saved.
38 A Blanche Sir Thomas Lavie Wrecked, March 4, off Ushant : crew, except 45 seamen, saved, but made prisoners.
32 G Java George Pigot Foundered, with Blenheim crew perished.
H Orpheus Thomas Briggs Wrecked, January 23, on the Coral reef, Jamaica station : crew saved.
Gun-p.-sh.
22 M Boreas George Scott Wrecked, December 5, on the Hannois rocks, near Guernsey : crew, except 68, perished.
R Nautilus Edmund Palmer Wrecked, Jan. 4, on Cenigotto a barren rock in the Levant : part only of crew saved.
Gun-sh-slp.
18 S Dauntless Christopher Stracey Captured, May 26, by the French, at the surrender of Dantzic.
Gun-bg-slp.
18 Y Leveret Rich. Jas. Laurence O'Connor Wrecked, November 10, on the Galloper rock: crew saved.
Z Busy Richard Keilly Foundered, date unknown, on the Halifax station : crew perished
16 a Atalante John Bower Wrecked, in February, at Rochefort: crew saved, but partly made prisoners.
César (name unknown) Wrecked, in March, on the coast of Gironde: crew, except 45, perished.
Moucheron, James Hawes Wrecked, date unknown, in the Mediterranean.
14 b Pert Donald Campbell Wrecked, Oct. 1, on the island of Santa. Margarita: crew, except 11, saved.
Bb. d Explosion, Edward Ellicot Wrecked, September 10, on Lundy island by the ignorance of the pilot: crew saved.
Prospero William King Foundered, Febrnary 18, in the North sea.
Gun-brig.
14 f Pigmy George Montagu Higginson Wrecked, March 2, off Rochefort : crew saved, but made prisoners.
Speedwell. William Robertson Foundered February 18, off Dieppe.
St.-Lucia Hon. Michael De Courcy Captured, date unknown, on tile Leeward-island station.
12 g Ferreter Henry Weir Captured, March 31, by seven Dutch gun-boats, and carried into the river Ems.
Griper Edward Morris Wrecked, February i8,off Ostend: crew perished.
Inveterate. George Norton Wrecked, February 18 near Saint Vallery en Caux : crew except four, saved, but made prisoners.
  Jackall Charles Stewart Wrecked, May 29, near Calais: crew saved, but made prisoners.
Gun-cut
14 i Netley William Carr Captured December 17 (1806 ), by the French frigate Thetis and brig Sylphe, West Indies.
12 k Elizabeth John Sedley Foundered, date unknown, in the West Indies: crew perished.
Felix Robert Clarke Wrecked January 23, in the bay of St. Andero: crew, except three, perished.
Fire-Fly Thomas Price Foundered, Oct. 7, in a hurricane off the

Spanish Main: crew, except the surgeon

and three men perished.
g; cut.
10 l Barbara Edward A. D'Arcey Captured, September 17, by the French privateer

Général-Ernouf, in the West Indies.
Cassandra. George Le Blanc Foundered, date unknown, off Heligoland: crew saved.
Crafly Richard Richard Spencer Captured, March 9, by three privateers in the

Straits of Gibraltar.
Maria John Henderson Foundered, date unknown, in the West Indies: crew perished.
8 m Subtle William Dowers Wrecked, October 26, on the rocks off Bermuda: crew saved.
  o Jackdaw Nathaniel Brice Captured, January, by a Spanish raw-boat: and

retaken, Feb. 15, by the Minerve.
  Magpie Edward Johnson (Captured, February 19, at Perros, where she was driven through stress of weather.
41 Pike John Otley Captured, April 20, by the Murat French privateer, off Altavella. Wrecked.
  Wagtail William Cullis  
  Woodcock. Isaac Charles Smith Collett February 13, at St. Michael's : crew saved.
F. V. w Ignition Philip Griffin Wrecked, February 19, off Dieppe: crew, except four, saved.

ABSTRACT.

  Lost through the enemy Lost through accident.  
  Captured Destroyed Wrecked Foundered Burnt Total
Ships of the line � � � 1 1 2
Ships under the line 9 � 21 7 � 37
Total 9 � 21 8 1 39

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