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Nautilus, 1804
Type: Ship-sloop ; 6th rate ; Armament 18
Launched : 1804 ;
Disposal date or year : 4 Jan 1807
Disposal Details : Wrecked on Cenigotto a barren rock in the Levant : part only of crew saved. Captain Edmund Palmer
Notes:
May 1805 Channel Fleet
3 Apr 1806 Renommée and Nautilus chased by a Spanish squadron, off Carthagena : the latter was despatched to Lord Collingwood, off Cadiz, with news of the escape.
3-4 May 1806 ship's boats of the Renommée and Nautilus cut out the Spanish schooner Giganta from the port of Vieja.
By 2 Jan 1807 Active and Nautilus had joined the squadron under R.-adm. Sir T. Louis in Azire bay, at the western end of the Dardanells. 1 Feb the squadron weighed, and anchored off the island of Tenedos.
11 Feb-3 Mar 1807
With Sir John Duckworth on what some have described as his somewhat less than successful expedition to Constantinople. 14th anchored off Cape Janizary, ships' boats used to rescue men from the burning Ajax. 19th steered for Constantinople. 2 Mar returned to the Mediterranean.