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Barracouta, 1804
Type: Schooner ; Armament 4
Launched : 1804 ;
Disposal date or year : 2 Oct 1805
Disposal Details : Wrecked on the Jordan quay, Cuba: crew saved, but made prisoners. Lieut J.Orchard
Notes:
1804 Built at Bermuda of the pencil cedar, measure, BOM, from 75 to 78 tons ; mount four 12-pounder carronades, with a crew of 20 men and boys.
1808 a less than complimentary comment on this type of vessel, which, although built in 1804, is included by William James in the volume for 1808, presumably as a result of the experiences of those who had sailed them.