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Bacchante, 1811
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 38
Launched : 16 Mar 1811 ;
Disposal date or year : 1858
BM: 1077 tons
Notes:
31 Aug 1812 off Rovigno, ship's boats captured two merchant vessels at the entrance of Port-Lemo, and a number of others, including the French xebec Tisiphone, and 2 gun-boats.
18 Sep 1812 off islands of Tremitti and Vasto, ship's boats capture the 18 merchant and 8 armed vessels.
6 Jan 1813 ships' boats of the Bacchante and Weasel in action to the south-east of Cape Otranto.
14 Feb 1813 ship's boats of the Bacchante captured and destroyed the French gun-vessel Alcinous. Eight trading vessels under her convoy and a French courier gun-boat la Vigilante were also reported to have been taken.
11 May 1813 destroyed the works that defended the port of Karlebago.
12 Jun 1813 ship's boats captured a number of gun-boats defending a convoy under the town of Gela-Nova, on the coast of Abruzza..
3 Jul-4 Aug 1813 the ship's boats of the Milford, Elizabeth, Eagle, Bacchante, Weasel and Haughty involved in actions at Fiume, Porto-Ré, Bocca-Ré, the fortress of Farasina, Rovigno, the island of Ragosniza.
5-29 Oct 1813 Milford, Eagle, Bacchante, Wizard and Mermaid involved in actions in and off the port of Triest.
12-13 Oct 1813 Bacchante and Saracen involved in actions in the region of the port of Cattaro.
5 Jan 1814 the fortress of Cattaro, in the Adriatic, surrendered to the Bacchante and Saracen,.
28 Jan 1814 the fortress of Ragusa surrendered to the Bacchante and Saracen, and British and Austrian troops besieging the fortress.
Santa Cruz 19 Jun 1814 Arrived from Gibraltar with a convoy of transports with troops and sailed on 22nd for Bermuda.
26 Aug 1814 Dragon, Endymion, Bacchante, Sylph and 10 transports with troops, sailed from Halifax, Nova-Scotia, for the river Penobscot. The expedition was joined on the 31st, off the Metinicus islands, by the Bulwark, Tenedos, Rifleman and Peruvian.
1-3 Sep 1814 the fleet came to anchor off the fort and town of Castine and on the 2nd the Peruvian, Sylph and ships' boats headed up the up the Penobscot looking for the frigate Adams, at Hamden, which was set on fire by the defending US forces before they escaped inland.
1830 Chatham
1837 Harbour Service
20 Dec 1848 Quarantine Service, Standgate Creek