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Lady Ann, 1799
Type: Hired Lugger ; Armament 12
Hired : 1799 ;
Disposal date or year : 1801
Notes:
13 Aug-Oct 1799 employed on expedition to Holland.
28 Aug 1799 capture of the Dutch hulks Drotchterland and Brooderschap, and the ships Helder, Venus, Minerva, and Hector, in the New Diep, in Holland.
4 May 1800 captured the French privateer Huits Freres off Flushing.
16 May 1801 captured the French privateer Victoire off Flamborough Head.
24 Feb 1802 prize money resulting from the capture of the Dutch hulks Drotchterland and Brooderschap, and the ships Helder, Venus, Minerva, and Hector due to be paid.
17 Nov-30 Dec 1802 prize money resulting from the expedition to Holland due for payment.
Lady Charlotte, 1799
Type: Hired Brig ; Armament 12
Hired : 1799 ? ;
Disposal date or year : 1801
Notes:
Jan 1801 captured the Brig D'Eendraght and Cargo. Lieutenant George Morris.
11 Feb 1801 captured the French privateer Espoir in the Channel.
29 Mar 1801 went in chase of the Friendship Brig, taken by the Privateer La Pluton, Charles La Niece, Captain, which was retaken in the Evening by Lieutenant Rowed, in the Union Hired Armed Cutter, and sent into Portsmouth and the privateer was taken by the Sheerness Hired Armed Cutter.
The following appeared in the London Gazette for 25 April 1801 :
His Majesty's Hired Brig Lady Charlotte,
Plymouth-Sound, April 22, 1801.
Sir, I beg leave to inform you, that on tbe 20th Instant, at Six A. M., I weighed from Portland Roads, (the Sheerness Cutter in Company.) on the Signal being made for an Enemy on the Coast : I stood to the Southward with the above Cutter, having Information of a Schooner in that Quarter, which a Privateer had captured that Morning.
At Six P. M. on the 21st she was recaptured by the Boat of the Sheerness : on the 22d, at Two P. M., being then between Portland aud the Berry-Head, I observed a Lugger to Windward, to which the Sheerness gave Chace, and I am happy to say, captured after a running Fight of Half an Hour : from my Situation, being little Wind, I was unable to assist the Cutter in her Capture, I therefore sent my Boats in Chace, to the Westward, of Three Brigs and a Sloop, which they recaptured. They had been captured in the Morning by the Lugger which the Sheerness took ; but from the People on board them making their Escape in their Boats on the Approach of ours, I was unable to obtain their Names and Cargoes, except one, which is the Generous Friends, a Brig of about Two Hundred Tons, with a Cargo of Lead. I have the Honor to be, &c. &c. &c. George Morris. [It may be of interest to note that the crews of the Sheerness and Lady Charlotte would have been entitled to salvage money for the recaptures and thus the fact that these vessels made off meant that the mainly civilian crews of the Hired vessels arriving to rescue them received no reward for their release.]
Admiral Milbanke.
Lady Jane, 1795
Type: Hired cutter ; Armament 6
Hired : 1795 ;
Disposal date or year : 16-17 May 1800
Notes:
16-17 May 1800 presumed to have foundered at the same time as the Trompeuse and Railleur, having parted company in a gale in the Channel : crew perished. Commanding Officer W. Bryer.
Lady Nelson, 1799
Type: Cutter ; 10-gun
Hired : 1799 ? ;
Notes:
21 Dec 1799 the capture of the Lady Nelson off Cabrita point and her subsequent re-capture by the Queen-Charlotte's boats.
Lady Nelson, 1799
Type: Cutter ; 10-gun
Hired : 1799 ? ;
Notes:
21 Dec 1799 the capture of the Lady Nelson off Cabrita point and her subsequent re-capture by the Queen-Charlotte's boats.