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Appendix No. 8 | 390-392 |
See page 91
A list of the ships and vessels of the ships late belonging to the British navy, captured to the British navy, destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt, during the year 1808
Gun - ship |
Name |
Commander |
How, when and where lost |
50 |
T |
Jupiter |
Hon. E. R. Baker |
Wrecked, December 10, on a reef of rocks in Vigo bay coast of Spain : crew saved. |
Gun-frig. |
38 |
Z |
Leda |
Rob. Honyman |
Wrecked, January 31, at the entrance of Milford Haven crew saved. |
36 |
C |
Crescent |
John Temple |
Wrecked, December 6, on the coast of Jutland, in a heavy gale: crew, except about twenty, perished |
Flora |
L. Otway Bland |
Wrecked, January 19, on the coast of Holland : crew, except nine, saved, but made prisoners. |
Meleager |
Fred. Warren |
Wrecked, July 30, on Barebushkey, Jamaica: crew, except a midshipman and three seamen, saved. |
32 |
H |
Astraea |
Edm. Heywood |
Wrecked, May 24, on the rock near the island of Anagada, West Indies : crew, except four, saved. |
G.-p.-gb. |
22 |
M |
Banterer |
Alex. Shippard |
Wrecked, December 4, in the river St. Lawrence: crew saved. |
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Laurel |
J. C. Woolcombe |
Captured, September 15, off Isle-de-France, by the French 40-gun frigate Canonnière |
20 |
0 |
Micros |
Archibald Duff |
Wrecked, March 24, in the bay of Honda, in Cuba: crew saved. |
G.-sh. slp. |
18 |
S |
Bermuda |
W. Henry Bayne |
Wrecked, April 22, on the Memory rock, Little Bermuda : crew saved. |
G.-b.-s1p |
18 |
Y |
Carnation |
Ch. M. Gregory |
Captured, October 3, off Martinique, by the French 16-Gun Brig Palinure |
Gun-brig. slp |
16 |
a |
Delight |
Philip Cosby Handfield |
Wrecked, January 31, on the coast of Calabria. |
Delphinen |
Richard Harvard |
Wrecked, August 4, onthe coast of Holland. |
Electra |
George Trollope |
Wrecked, March 25, on the coast of Sicily
crew saved. |
Seagull |
Robert Cathcart |
Captured, June 19, off the Naze of Norway,
by the Danish 20-gun brig, Lougen and six
gun-boats. |
Volador |
Francis George Dickins |
Wrecked, October 22, in the gulf of Coro,
West Indies : crew saved. |
Gun.brig |
4 |
f |
Hirondelle. |
Joseph Kidd |
Wrecked, beginning of March, near Tunis
crew, except four, saved. |
12 |
g |
Maria |
James James Bennett |
Captured, September 29, off Guadaloupe, by the French corvette Departement des Landes |
Netley |
Charles Burman |
Wrecked, July 10, on
the Leeward-island station : crew, except
nine, perished. |
Rapid |
Henry Baugh |
Destroyed, May 18, by the batteries in the
Tagus, while attempting to cut out two valuable merchantmen. |
Sparkler |
J. S. A. Dennis |
Wrecked, January 15, on the coast of Holland
crew, except fourteen, saved, but made prisoners. |
Tickler J. |
J. W. Skinner |
Captured, June 4, in the Great Belt, by four Danish gun-boats. |
Tigress |
Edward Nathaniel Greensword |
Captured, August 2, in the Great Belt, by
sixteen Danish gun-vessels. |
Turbulent. |
George Wood |
Captured, June 10, in the bay of Malmo, by a Danish flotilla. |
Raposa |
James Violett |
Destroyed, February 15, after running aground on a shoal near Carthagena, to prevent capture. |
Gun-cut. |
12 |
k |
Millbrook |
James Leach |
Wrecked, March 25, on the Burlings: crew saved. |
10 |
1 |
Bacchus |
Henry Murray |
Captured, date unknown on the Leeward-island station. |
Pickle |
Moses Cannadey |
Wrecked, July 27, while entering Cadiz with
Despatches, |
8 |
m |
Firefly |
(name unknown) |
Wrecked, date unknown West Indies. |
Capelin |
Joseph Bray |
Wrecked, June 30, on a sunken rock off the entrance of Brest harbour : crew saved. |
Crane |
Joseph Tindale |
Wrecked, October 26, on the rocks at the West Hoe: crew saved. |
Rook |
James Lawrence |
Captured, in October, off St.-Domingo, by two French privateers. |
Tang |
(name unknown) |
Foundered, on her passage from Bermuda
to England: crew perished. |
Wigeon |
George Elliott |
Wrecked, April 20, on the coast of Scotland, crew saved . |
ABSTRACT
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Lost through the enemy |
Lost through accident |
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Capt |
Dest |
Wrecked |
Foundered |
Burnt |
Total |
Ships of the line |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
Ships under the line |
9 |
2 |
22 |
1 |
... |
34 |
Total |
9 |
2 |
22 |
1 |
... |
34 |
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