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Perdrix, 1795
Type: 22 gun ship (20 French 6-pdrs ; 2 x English 12-pdr carronades)
Taken from the French by the Vanguard, Jul 1795 ;
Disposal date or year : 1799
Notes:

11 Dec 1798 off Virgin-Gorda chased and captured the French privateer-ship Armée-d'Italie.

1 Jan 1799, Capt. W. C. Fahie. In the West Indies.

Perdrix The [merchant] fleet which sailed from the Leeward Islands 9 May 1799, under convoy of the Vengeance, Pearl, and Perdrix, consisted as follows :— 123 sail for London, 93 for Liverpool, 18 for Bristol, 23 for Scotland, 8 for Lancaster, 7 for Ireland, 18 for America, 1 for Africa, and 9 transports, making in all 260. The whole of the vessels for England, Scotland, and Ireland, without exception, are safely arrived.