Naval Database

Nightingale, 1829
Type: Brig ; Armament 6
Purchased : 1829 ; Disposal date or year : 1842

Notes:

1830 Operating out of Falmouth, fitted as a packet

Falmouth 2 May 1830 Arrived from Plymouth.

Portsmouth 24 Jul 1831 Arrived from St. Domingo.

Falmouth 16 Mar 1833 Arrived from the Leeward Islands (11 Feb).

Barbadoes 10 May 1833 Arrived from Falmouth.

1 Jan 1834 Employed as a Packet.

Plymouth 5 Jun 1834 In Hamoaze.

Extract from the Log of H. M. Brig Nightingale.

Hour.	Courses.	Winds.	Remarks
Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1836.
A.M.
1		ENE	Fresh breezes and cloud .
Noon		ENE	Lat. 14° 34’, long. 55° 40’. Barbados, S 73,W 251.
P.M.
1		ENE	Fresh breezes and squally.
4.30		ENE	Heavy squalls, with rain; in all studding-sails; close-reefed the topsails.
8		E	Squally, with rain.
Thursday, Sept. 3, 1836.
A. M.
1		E	Squally, unsettled weather.
8			Squally, with rain; furled all sails ; down the top-gallant-yards and mast, and got flying jib-boom on deck.
10		S E	Bent the storm-sails, and set them.
12			Sun obscured.
			Lat. d. r. 13° 10', long. 57° 54’. Barbados, south point, 8 85, W 102.
P.M.
1		SSE	Strong gales and squally.
2			Set the topsails and course.
4			Strong breezes and dark cloudy weather.
8			Moderate breezes and cloudy.
9	S E		Saw the island of Barbados, bearing W, distant three or four leagues, south point bearing WSW. Midn. North extremity of the island W 13 N.

The wind is stated as blowing from the south-east and east-south-east, until the evening of the 4th, when it became east-north-east, and the Nightingale anchored in Carlisle Bay, at 7.15, P.M.; and was soon afterwards despatched after the Spitfire, supposed to leave been in sight, dismasted.

Falmouth 12 Mar 1837 arrived from Lisbon.

26 June 1840 Plymouth, sailed Monday for the north coast of Spain.

31 Jul 1840, Woolwich, sailed on Thursday for the north coast of Spain.

1 Oct 1840 Plymouth sailed Thursday for Sheerness.

7 Nov 1840 T. W. Cole (Clerk in charge), appointed to the Nightingale.

2 Jan 1841 Second Master George Hicks ; Assistant Surgeon O'Neil Ferguson ; and Clerk in Charge J. W. Cole, appointed to the Nightingale.

12 Jun 1841, sailed for Bristol.

11 Sep 1841, Lieutenant John Barnes (from the Victor), appointed to command the Nightingale brig,

16 Sep 1841, Plymouth, came into harbour to refit.