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40: 95: 244:, Gordon, master, sailed from Bristol on 30 December 1805, bound for West Africa. She was reported "well" in the River Gambia on 13 May 1806 and was expected to leave in a few days. A second report has her "all well" at 196:
under that name, suggesting that she may have been an American vessel that only came to Bristol, and was renamed, shortly before she sailed from Bristol in 1805. In 1805 she made a
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on 26 July, and expected to sail for the West Indies on 26 July. However, the next report has a privateer of ten guns and 70 men capturing
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Preston Edgar, Philip Masey, John Farquharson, James Curtis, John Oldham, and Thomas Wilmot (1805: all of Bristol)
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appears in the Bristol Presentments for 1805 and 1806, but not before or later. Captain James Gordon received a
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as having been "a very successful Privateer all this War, and was intended for a Cruizer in those Seas."
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Bristol, Africa, and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America, Vo. 4 The Final Years, 1770-1807
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La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815
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was built in 1797 in Plymouth (probably Plymouth, Massachusetts). She never enters
611:. Bristol Record Society, c/o Department of Historical Studies, Univ. of Bristol. 494: 333:, of six 12-pounder guns and 44 men, and described as a letter of marque brig. 272: 629: 197: 337:
was taking provisions from Bordeaux to Guadeloupe when she encountered
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voyage during which the French captured her. She became the privateer
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Records of Bristol Ships, 1800-1838 (vessels over 150 tons)
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Éditions Ancre. 572: 311:seven killed and 14 wounded. 370: 341:. Captain Sanders described 7: 10: 677: 641:Age of Sail merchant ships 277: 15: 661:Privateer ships of France 579:Demerliac, Alain (2003). 226: 130: 31: 27: 263:The French commissioned 177:1808:6 × 12-pounder guns 171:1805:12 × 6-pounder guns 469:, p. 323, No.1760. 314: 295:. Rather than fleeing, 219:. The British captured 208:fought an inconclusive 131:General characteristics 238:on 14 November 1805. 204:, out of Guadeloupe. 365:Register of Shipping 359:was still listed in 651:Bristol slave ships 284:On 3 December 1807 548:The London Gazette 437:on 20 October 2016 210:single-ship action 18:British Tar (ship) 405:Richardson (1996) 267:as the privateer 256:French privateer 183: 182: 668: 622: 603: 594: 567: 559: 553: 552: 539: 533: 525: 519: 511: 505: 491: 485: 476: 470: 467:Demerliac (2003) 464: 447: 446: 444: 442: 436: 430:. 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British Tar (ship)
French Navy Ensign
bm
Lloyd's Register
slave trading
single-ship action
HMS Curieux
letter of marque
Goree
Alexis Grassin
HMS Curieux (1804) § Curieux and Revanche
HMS Curieux
HMS Belette




Farr (1950)


Richardson (1996)




"Letter of Marque, p.54 - accessed 25 July 2017"
the original


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