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Camel, 1781
Type: Storeship ; Armament 40, reduced to 26
Purchased : 1781
Disposal date or year : 1831
Notes:

21 Dec 1796 When the Mediterranean fleet arrived in the Tagus, the Bombay-Castle, 74, Captain Thomas Sotheby, to avoid running foul of the Camel store-ship, ran aground and was subsequently lost on the 28th.

20-21 Sep 1799 inconclusive action between the store-ship Camel, ship-sloop Rattlesnake and the French 36-gun frigate Preneuse.

May 1805 Mediterranean

Portsmouth 4 Apr 1814 Sailed to the eastward.

Portsmouth 24 Aug 1814 Sailed with a convoy for the West Indies.

Portsmouth 1 Sep 1814 Sailed from St. Helen's with the convoy for the West Indies.

Cork 4 Sep 1814 Arrived with the outward bound West India Fleet from Spithead.

Portsmouth 24 Jun 1815 Arrived.

Plymouth 6 Nov 1815 Arrived from Portsmouth, for Malta.

Newfoundland 2 Aug 1819 Arrived from Portsmouth.