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Niger, 1813
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 38
Launched : 1813 ;
Disposal date or year : 1820
Notes:
Plymouth 10 Oct 1813 Arrived with a convoy of transports from Passage.
Plymouth 16 Nov 1813 Sent in the American schooner Dart, from New Orleans, bound to Bordeaux.
Falmouth 7 Dec 1813 Arrived and got under weigh with the convoy for Brazil.
5-6 Jan 1814 Niger and Tagus, with a convoy in company, discovered the French 40-gun frigates Cérès and Clorinde, off the Cape de Verds, and sailed in chase, eventually capturing the Cérès, which, being a new frigate of 1074 tons, was added to the British navy, under the name of Seine.
Portsmouth 23 Nov 1814 Arrived from the Cape of Good Hope with a convoy from the Cape and points East.
Portsmouth 7 Dec 1814 Is appointed to the convoy bound to the Cape, East Indies and South Seas.
Portsmouth 28 Dec 1814 Remains with her convoy for the East Indies.
Portsmouth 29 Dec 1814 Will sail in the morning with the convoy for the Cape and India, should the wind be fair.
Portsmouth 30 Dec 1814 Sailed with the convoy for the Cape and the Mauritius but the wind being foul, came to anchor again.
Portsmouth 2 Jan 1815 Sailed from St. Helen's with a convoy for the Cape, Isle of France and East Indies.
Plymouth 3 Jan 1815 Has passed by with the outward bound East Indies convoy from Portsmouth.
Portsmouth 2 Aug 1815 Arrived from the East Indies with dispatches.
Portsmouth 28 Jan 1816 Sailed for America.
Halifax circa 30 Aug 1816 Remains.
8 Dec 1816 Is reported to have arrived at Halifax, from Boston early in November.