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CORSO
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Taken on 2 December 1796 by SOUTHAMPTON (32) off Monaco.
Sold in 1814. |
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- 1797 Barth. JAMES, Lisbon.
- 1799 Lord W. STEWART, Lisbon.
- 1800 William RICKETTS, Mediterranean.
On 18 February 1800 she was in company with a number of ships under the command of Lord Nelson when a French line-of-battle ship, three frigates and a corvette were sighted and chased by ALEXANDER.
One of the frigates struck after several shots were fired at her and she was left in charge of AUDACIOUS and EL CORSO while Nelson continued the chase. In the late afternoon the ship surrendered to SUCCESS, FOUDROYANT and NORTHUMBERLAND and proved to be the LEGENEREUX (74) flying the flag of the French C. in C., Rear Ad. PERREE, carrying troops for the relief of Malta. - Also during the year CORSO operated in the Adriatic with the cutter PIGMY against French privateers and trading vessels. Some merchants from Trieste presented Capt. RICKETTS with a diamond ring on the 4 January 1801 in appreciation of his work. She took two vessels on the 17 January, a ship from Barcelona loaded with brandy and a Russian polacca with leather.
The Danish ADONIS from Copenhagen was taken on the 13 February and the brig MADELLINA CHRISTINA on the 16th.
On the 27 February they retook a trabaccolo which had been captured by a French privateer while she was on her way from Trieste to Fiume.
CORSO took two brigs and a trabaccolo during April and recaptured the brig IMPERETORE on the 19 April after she had been taken by a privateer while sailing from Trieste to Zante.
The French dispatch vessel LA CORIVESSE mounting one brass gun was taken on 27 May 1801. She was commanded by Bernard du Bourdier who, with another officer, was carrying dispatches from Alexandria to Ancona. - On 26 August the boats of CORSO and the schooner PIGMY under the command of the 1st.
Lieutenant, Mr YEO, assisted by Mr DOUGLAS, the master of PIGMY, seized the town of Cesantico about 15 miles north of Rimini and, by sinking 2 and burning 11, destroyed all the vessels in the harbour. The two piers were burnt and the harbour entrance blocked. They maintained themselves against the French troops in the neighbourhood but, when a party of horse was seen coming at full speed from Cervia they thought it prudent to retire. - An an attempt to attack Pesaro with the aid of Italian partisans came to nothing. CORSO and PIGMY then answered an appeal from Venice and took all necessary measures to protect the city against a reported French force.
- On 15 July she left Portsmouth to pay off at Woolwich. From March 1803 she was employed as a guardship at Gravesend on the Thames.
- 1803 Lieut. Jos. KNEESHAW, Gravesend.
- 1805 Wm. HUTCHINSON, ditto.
- 1807 Lieut. Wm. GILCHRIST, ditto. Lieut. George TAYLOR, ditto.
- 1814 Lieut. Wm. HILLIER, ditto.
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