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CRUIZER (8) Sloop Built in 1752, Deptford.
Burnt in 1776.

  • 1763 Capt. LESLER. Nore, on 9 April he asked for a pilot to take him up the river.
  • 1763 Capt. John Mc BRIDE, Woolwich, appointed in May out of the GRAMPUS fireship. Recommended appointment of Roger CLERKE, late master of the SHANNON and Christian PHLUGER, late surgeon of the VULTURE. Writing from the New Exchange Coffee House in the Strand on 15 June, the captain requested orders to fit the CRUIZER as a snow and requested a middle staysail and top gallant studding sails. At the end of July he moved out into Galleon's Reach and asked for the painting of his ship to be completed so that he could comply with his orders to carry men to Plymouth for the squadron fitting out there.
    During August CRUIZER was employed in suppressing smuggling between Portsmouth and the Downs. On 2 September he reported that his cutter had been sunk whilst boarding a smuggling cutter and the want of a boat was preventing him from proceeding to protect the herring fishery off Yarmouth. In December their six-oared cutter was lost in a storm and he requested an order to get a new one at Deal.
    The purser of CRUIZER was James CLIFFE.
  • In June 1764 an anchor and cables from CRUIZER were salvaged and brought into Deal by Robert Willard and Co. Capt. Mc BRIDE had sprung his main yard and a carpenter had to be sent on board to instal a Royal Stick.
  • In the summer of 1765 CRUIZER was operating out of Harwich and on 9 September she sailed south with the FUBBS and MARY yachts. On 20 June 1765 Capt. Mc BRIDE was promoted to be captain of the RENOWN, a 30-gun frigate.
  • 1765 Capt. Charles ROCKE, Dover. In September he was complaining that Capt. Mc BRIDE had not left a Slop Book and he only had the account of slops issued in the Muster Book. In January 1766 was CRUIZER repaired at Sheerness and during the year she was employed against smugglers and based in the Downs. In March Mr CLERKE, the Master, was taken ill and sent to sick quarters in Deal. In August her boats were lost when chasing smugglers off Beachy Head. She was docked at Sheerness between 2 and 5 September.
  • 1767 Capt. KEELER, Dover. In July he lost two boats whilst chasing a smuggler off Beachy Head and requested two from Deal. In September he reported that his cook had run and he recommended the one-eyed Samuel SHORT who was a quartermaster in the sloop.
  • 1776 Cdr. Francis PARRY, in May she was going from NN. Carolina to Boston, and in July she was off Cape Fear. On 2 October 1776 she was burnt off the coast of South Carolina.


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