HMS Mosambique was the French privateer schooner Mosambique, built in 1798, and commissioned as a privateer in 1804. The British Royal Navy captured her...
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purchased her and donated her to the Royal Navy, which commissioned her in 1804 as HMS Grenada. She was later converted to a brig. She captured nine small French...
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HMS Fort Diamond was a six-gun sloop (or cutter), commissioned in 1804 in Martinique. Her origins are unknown. She captured one French privateer before...
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the morning of 13 March 1804, Fort Diamond, the tender to Diamond Rock, captured the French 10-gun privateer schooner Mosambique, which had anchored close...
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Swallow (1779 EIC packet) (redirect from HMS Lily (1804))
and Mosambique there both to deny the island to French privateers and to forestall any French attempt to recapture it. On 21 April Mosambique chased...
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Voltigeur was a Palinure-class brig launched in 1804. The British captured her in 1806 and renamed her HMS Pelican. She was sold in 1812. In late 1805, the...
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abandoned their vessel and swam ashore. The Royal Navy took Mosambique into service. In the spring of 1804, Emerald and her crew took part in an invasion of Surinam...
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Guadeloupe. Alert also captured Harriet, Thompson, master, of Lancaster, but HMS Mosambique recaptured Harriet. In the engagement with Alerte at 26°15′N 58°10′W...
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on 29 March and in company with Lilly, Pelican, Express, Swinger, and Mosambique, sailed from Marie-Galante to attack the island of La Désirade. They arrived...
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