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Termagant, 1796
Type: Ship-sloop ; Armament 18
Launched : 1796 ; Disposal date or year : 1819
Notes:

8 Mar to 2 Sep 1801 Services off the coast of Egypt.

25 Jun 1805 Termagant joined Nelson's fleet with intelligence.

Sheerness 2 Jan 1807 Arrived.

Sheerness 10 Jan 1810 Sailed for Portsmouth.

Falmouth 27 Jan 1810 Sailed with a convoy for Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean.

May 1812 the Hyacinth, Termagant and Basilisk collaborate with the Spanish on the coast of Grenada, in expelling the French from their country.

Gibraltar 19 Sep 1812 Remained.

28 May 1813 Operating in the Mediterranean.

Genoa 1 Aug 1814 Sailed.

Portsmouth 22 Sep 1814 Arrived from the Mediterranean.

Portsmouth 24 Sep 1814 Released from quarantine.

Portsmouth 6 Oct 1814 Sailed for the Downs.

Deal 8 Jan 1815 Came down from the river, and sailed for Portsmouth.

Portsmouth Jan 9 Arrived from the Downs.

Portsmouth 1 Feb 1815 Sailed with dispatches for the Cape of Good Hope.

Madras 29 Aug 1815 Sailed for Mauritius.

Madras 23 Aug 1815 Arrived in the roads from Trincomalee.

Trincomalee 20 Mar 1816 Reported to be at Madras.

25th of July 1805 (Vol iii - page 341)
On the 19th of July the British fleet anchored in Gibraltar bay; and " on the 20th," says Lord Nelson in his diary, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting 10 days. " On the 22d the fleet weighed and stood across to Tetuan to water, anchoring at 8 P.M. in Mazari bay. On the 24th, at noon, the fleet again got under way and steered for Ceuta, and remained during the night in the gut, with variable winds and a thick fog. On the 25th the 18-gun ship-sloop Termagant, Captain Robert Pettet, from England, joined, with information that the brig-sloop Curieux, on her way home with Lord Nelson's despatches, had, on the 19th of June, * in latitude 33° 12' north, longitude 58° west, fallen in with the combined fleet, steering, at first, north by west, but afterwards north-north-west. This intelligence, stale as it was in being communicated five weeks after it bore date, was the earliest, of a positive nature, which the vice-admiral had received.