HMS Alphea was built of Bermudan pencil cedar as a cutter and launched in 1804. Later she was converted to a schooner. She captured a number of small prizes...

HMS Ferret was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Benjamin Tanner at Dartmouth and launched in 1806, 19 months late. She served on the Jamaica...

HMS Peacock was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and had a relatively uneventful career until she had the misfortune...

10 – French privateer cutter Renard destroys the schooner HMS Alphea 1813, October 9 – HMS Thunder captures the French privateer Neptune 1814, January...

HMS San Domingo was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1809 at Woolwich. She was sold in 1816. On 14 August 1812...

HMS La Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford. She was named after the 1692 Battle of...

service in the First Barbary War. On 22 June 1807 she was fired upon by HMS Leopard of the Royal Navy for refusing to allow a search for deserters. The...

launched in South America under a different name. She was taken in prize circa 1806. Once under British ownership she performed one voyage as a whaler in the...

HMS Colibri was the French naval Curieux-class brig Colibri, launched in 1808, that the British captured in 1809 and took into the Royal Navy under her...

HMS Duke of Gloucester (or Gloucester) was a 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy which was launched at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Ontario...

merchant vessels bound for Great Britain and under convoy by the schooner HMS Juniper. At 4°25′N 22°30′W / 4.417°N 22.500°W / 4.417; -22.500 one left...

generally. Incidents William Dent left Jamaica in August 1806 in a convoy of 109 vessels under escort by HMS Veteran, Magicienne, Franchise, and Penguin. On 18...

privateers into Portsmouth. Then on 27 March, Boadicea, Medusa, the cutter Alphea, and schooner Ant captured 25 French fishing vessels. On 8 August Boadicea...

HMS Vautour was 16-gun brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. The navy captured her from the French on the stocks in 1809 and commissioned her in 1810...

HMS Daring was a 12-gun gun-brig of the Archer class of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1804 and served in the Channel and North Sea, capturing...

HMS Woolwich was an Adventure-class frigate launched in 1784. She essentially spent her career as a storeship until she was wrecked in 1813. It is not...

HMS Herring was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich...

acquired a letter of marque on 2 October 1805. Lloyd's List reported on 10 June 1806 that Paragon had gone on shore at Berbice. She had then go into Demerara...

the General Blake. On 12 August, Gallatin escorted the British schooner HMS Whiting out of American waters at Hampton Roads. The Norfolk privateer Dash...

November, bound for Africa. Bootle arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 13 June 1806. She had embarked 367 slaves and she landed 330, for a loss rate of 10.0%...

September in a convoy under the escort of the 50-gun HMS Antelope, and returned to Britain on 29 October 1806. Captain Henry King sailed Charming Kitty on her...

boats from the two vessels patrolled the port. At some point the schooner Alphea joined the effort. The French forces eventually succeeded in overwhelming...

tremendous gale at Deal in which she lost cables and anchors. On 7 November 1806 Godfrey was sailing from London to Jamaica when she ran ashore on North Sand...

joined Northampton, and the three vessels sailed on 21 January with HMS Java and HMS Madagascar as escorts. At some point the escorts left the Indiamen...