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HMS Decoy (1810)

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42: 1671: 1666: 657:, a 20-metre-long privateer from Boulogne, was commissioned in September 1810. Her first cruise from September 1810 to November 1810 was under Pierre-Antoine Hénin, with 84 men and 16 guns. She made two cruises from November 1810 to May 1811, and from September 1811 to March 1812, under Louis Delpierre. From September 1813, she was under Captain Picquendaire. 562:. The courtmartial admonished Pearce to be more careful in the future. It ordered the midshipman who had been on watch to forfeit all his outstanding pay and to be ineligible for promotion for three years. Lastly, it ordered the two pilots to lose all pay due them and sentenced one to six months in the 548:
The courtmartial of Pearce and his men found that she had grounded in a dense fog, Pearce and the officer of the watch, a midshipman, believing that she was eight miles off shore. All efforts to lighten her and get her off failed and as the water receded she was revealed to be lying on the Waldram
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returned fire with her guns and with small arms and drove them off. Efforts to prop her up to await the next tide failed and she fell on her side. A larger party of soldiers arrived under a flag of truce and offered good terms of surrender so Pearce
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was launched in 1810. She participated in the capture of several small French privateers, captured or recaptured a number of merchant vessels, and captured a number of smuggling vessels. The French captured her in 1814.
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was pierced for 16 guns but only had four mounted. She had a crew of 60 men, and did not strike until she had lost three men killed and 16 wounded, most severely.
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was at Portsmouth on 31 July 1812 when the British authorities seized the American ships there and at Spithead on the outbreak of the
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as "His Majesty's hired Cutter", an erroneous assumption based on the fact that most of the cutters serving the navy at the time were
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So many vessels shared in the prize money that the amounts per man were small. A second-class share, that of a lieutenant, was
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reported that she had got under the batteries and that in the ensuing engagement two of her crew were killed.
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seized smuggled spirits and lace. This may have been in connection with the capture of a smuggling boat.
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and her crew later received salvage money for those bales and also for some retrieved on 14 April 1811.
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recovered some 25 bags of cotton, some marked "W. Hampton". A week or so later two fishing boats and
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Flats. A party of French soldiers approached and opened fire with small arms, wounding a seaman on
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also brought in similar bales of cotton. The bales may have come from a vessel that had foundered.
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La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815
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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
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Pearse's share of the prize money was £60 12s 9d; a seaman's share was 11s 5d.
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grounded off Calais on 22 March 1814, enabling the French to capture her.
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On 13 May 1812 a French row boat privateer, of 29 men, prize to
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on shore between Gravelines and Dunkirk, and destroyed her.
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also captured smugglers. On 23 May she captured the boat
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lost her bowsprit and mast, and had her bows stove in.
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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859
582:Pearse's share of the prize money for the boat was 1685: 246:Lieutenant John Pearce (or Pearse) commissioned 1118: 666:Pearse's share of the prize money was £9 9s 1125: 1111: 963: 961: 882: 880: 878: 161:Overall:75 ft 0 in (22.9 m) 1134:Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1814 1045: 987: 773: 771: 769: 767: 1083: 999: 967: 932: 886: 861: 827: 777: 734: 722: 19:For other ships with the same name, see 958: 875: 471:captured three Prussian brigs in 1813: 1686: 1064: 1030: 764: 1106: 445:captured the French privateer lugger 390:captured the French privateer lugger 39: 13: 14: 1720: 977:. 13 November 1813. p. 2258. 871:. 22 December 1812. p. 2576. 196:11 ft 0 in (3.4 m) 188:26 ft 0 in (7.9 m) 1669: 1664: 896:. 17 February 1816. p. 313. 40: 1013: 993: 946: 926: 912: 900: 697: 660: 648: 632: 611: 594:; the share of a seaman was 1s 576: 489:was in sight at the capture of 348:was sailing to Little Hampton. 1069:. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. 855: 841: 821: 807: 791: 748: 728: 333:, which was carrying spirits. 1: 1050:(in French). Éditions Ancre. 1039: 1009:. 12 March 1814. p. 546. 837:. 27 July 1811. p. 1458. 744:. 8 January 1811. p. 61. 272:As with the revenue cutters, 250:in May 1810 for the Channel. 787:. 2 January 1813. p. 9. 710: 515:recaptured the English brig 7: 942:. 11 May 1816. p. 880. 680:d; a seaman's share was 1s 10: 1725: 1709:Maritime incidents in 1814 1472:September (unknown date): 280:, and on 4 June, the boat 18: 1699:Cutters of the Royal Navy 1659: 1628: 1237:February (unknown date): 1140: 1065:Hepper, David J. (1994). 1046:Demerliac, Alain (2003). 359:seized smuggled spirits. 241: 103: 34: 30: 1541:October (unknown date): 1199:January (unknown date): 990:, p. 248, No. 1805. 569: 104:General characteristics 16:Cutter of the Royal Navy 1088:. Seaforth Publishing. 533: 326:captured the smuggling 315:ran a French privateer 75:Daniel List, Fishbourne 1084:Winfield, Rif (2008). 760:(1811), Seq. No. L374. 526:captured the smuggler 500:captured the smuggler 178: in (17.2 m) 1444:Départment des Landes 641:was a sister ship to 438:On 11 September 1812 507:On 7 September 1813 405:, arrived at Dover. 1503:Sir John Sherbrooke 449:, that the cutters 267:hired armed vessels 253:On 6 November 1810 1006:The London Gazette 974:The London Gazette 939:The London Gazette 893:The London Gazette 868:The London Gazette 834:The London Gazette 784:The London Gazette 741:The London Gazette 362:On 2 January 1812 1681: 1680: 1465:General Armstrong 1095:978-1-86176-246-7 955:. 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Index

HMS Decoy
Royal Navy Ensign
United Kingdom
Decoy-class
Cutter
bm
Sails
carronades
hired armed vessels
HMS Kangaroo
Pigmy
lugger
smack
Pioneer
struck
War of 1812
HMS Bermuda
Pioneer
Dwarf
Defender
struck
Marshalsea
£
s
d
£
s
d
Winfield (2008)
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