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The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch.Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd, and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot.
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Highlander first appeared in the Register of Shipping (RS) in 1810. [1] Highlander first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1811. [2] On 5 January 1811, Highlander, Holmes, master, cut from her anchors and cables in Portland Roads and ran onshore to the north of the harbour at Weymouth, Dorset. She had been on her way from St. Domingo to London.
In service as a prison ship at Kingstown, 1834, Dublin Penny Journal. The Royal Navy never fitted her for sea, but re-classed her as a 42-gun ship. She served as a troopship on 7 July 1819. She was hulked at Cork to serve as a prison ship in Ireland in October 1823, [1] and between 1824 and 1834 served in this capacity at Kingstown. [47]
Between the War of 1812 and 1830, piracy in the West Indies flared up again, prompting the United States to take more serious action against the outlaws. By 1818, Jean Lafitte commanded a fleet of ships pirating out of Galveston, Texas; so the New Orleans Squadron began operations against him. About this time Lafitte suffered a significant ...
She served for several years as a vital supply ship for the Provincial Marine. The Royal Navy took over the Provincial Marine in 1814 and so acquired Nancy. After HMS Nancy was blocked in by an American fleet near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River, her crew set her on fire on 14 August 1814 to prevent the capture of the ship and the cargo she ...