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CREOLE (38) Taken by Capt. Henry BAYNTUN's squadron off San Domingo on 30 June 1803.
Foundered in 1804.

  • Capt. Austin BISSELL, Port Royal.
  • At the end of 1803 CREOLE sailed for England in company with CUMBERLAND and the homebound trade.
    On 25 December in lat. 33deg 18' N. and long. 66deg 12' W., CREOLE sprang a leak which soon gained on the pumps, although the French prisoners and the invalided seamen joined her crew at working them.
    When all her guns save four, and a large quantity of shot and ballast were thrown overboard and a sail thrummed under her bottom it seemed possible that she might be saved but when the wind changed making a heavy cross sea her leak increased. Some officers from CUMBERLAND surveyed her on 2 January and decided that she should be abandoned. By the afternoon the water had reached the orlop-deck and it soon became apparent that the upper works were breaking away about the water line. All her people were moved to CUMBERLAND and about dusk she sank.
  • A court martial at Portsmouth on 29 January decided that her loss was due to her very leaky condition.


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