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Blanche, 1786
Type: Store Ship ; late 5th rate ; 32 x long 12 and 6 pdrs, six x 18-pdr carronades, = 38 guns (1794/5)
Launched : 1786
Disposal date or year : 28 Sep 1799
Disposal Details : Wrecked in the Texel : crew saved. Capt John Ayscough
Displacement : 710 tons (BM)
Notes:
1 Oct 1793 captured the French privateer Vengeur on the West Indies station.
8 Oct 1793 captured the French privateer Révolution on the West Indies station.
28 Dec 1793 captured the French privateer Sans Culottes on the West Indies station.
March and April 1794, operations at the Islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe.
30 Dec 1794 capture of a large French armed schooner off the island of Desirade.
6 Jan 1795 capture of the French frigate Pique, off the islands of the Saintes, WI, during which Captain Robert Faulknor was killed.
17 Apr 1795 captured a French privateer, Name unknown, near St. Lucia.
23 Apr 1796 the Agamemnon, Diadem, Meleager, and Peterel, detached to cruise off Vado.
By 31 May 1796 Commodore Nelson's squadron, augmented by the Blanche, Captain d'Arcy Preston, and Speedy.
31 May 1796 Oneglia. The boats from a part of Cdre. Nelson's squadron, despite heavy fire, bring off 6 heavily laden transports. .
19 Dec 1796 whilst the frigates Minerve, Captain George Cockburn, and Blanche, Captain d'Arcy Preston, were en route from Gibraltar to Porto-Ferrajo, the Blanche was involved in an inconclusive action with the Spanish frigate Ceres, which was abandoned due to the approach of a Spanish squadron.
20 Nov 1797 captured the French privateer Courier on the Lisbon station.
27 Dec 1797 captured the French privateer Bayonnois on the Lisbon station.
Aug-Sep 1799 employed on expedition to Holland until wrecked.
1 - 2 May 1800 prize money resulting from the operations at the Islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe due for payment. www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/15245/pages/339
17 Nov-30 Dec 1802 prize money resulting from the expedition to Holland due for payment.