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In response, Captain Stephen Cassin launched a boat expedition which captured four schooners but again most of the pirates escaped. On September 30, 1822, the twenty-six gun HMS Tyne was escorting a one-gun merchant sloop Eliza when attacked by a five-gun pirate felucca named Firme Union.
On 20 March 1823 HMS Grecian captured the pirate schooner La Gata, a felucca, and two boats. The Navy acquired Gata and took her into service as Lion. Her initial role was ship's tender to HMS Serapis, which was serving as a storeship at Jamaica. Lieutenant William Hobson commissioned Lion in March.
On 15 April 1805 Papillon was anchored at Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica, when the master of a dogger informed Woolsey that there was a Spanish privateer felucca off the west coast of the island. Woolsey realised that the felucca would escape if he approached in Papillon and so decided to use a stratagem.
Also on the ship was the captain's 14-year-old son; the pirate captain crushed the boy's head when the pirate could no longer stand to hear the crying child. On 30 September 1822, a 5-gun pirate felucca named Firme Union and 5-gun schooner named El Diabelito attacked the 1-gun sloop Eliza, a tender to HMS Tyne.
Felucca on the Nile at Luxor. A felucca [a] is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia.However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one.
On 6 July 1823 Union and Lion, and boats of Tyne captured a pirate felucca. [4] Lieutenant H.O. Love commissioned Union in September 1824 at Kingston, Jamaica. In October Lieutenant James C. Bennet replaced Love. However, her commander in November was Lieutenant Henderson.
Then while serving on the Jamaica station, in July 1800 Crescent took the 12-gun French corvette Diligente, [7] which the Royal Navy took into service as a 14-gun transport under her existing name. Between 21 May and 8 August, Crescent , Meleager , and Nimrod captured two Spanish vessels: a felucca that was sailing from Havana to Vera Cruz, and ...
Burt captain, about 30 men and some women onboard) near the Turneffe Atoll, but is eventually repulsed. [260] [261] [262] 28 June – 28 June: Twenty-five Spanish privateers, aboard a sloop, surprise merchant captain Roger Groves (of New York), with 30 to 40 men, in the Bay. [263] [264]