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EGERIA
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Built in 1807, Bridport.
Hospital ship in 1825.
Broken up in 1865. |
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- 1807 fitting out at Plymouth.
- 1808 Lewis HOLE, 05/1808, North Sea. She captured the Danish schooner privateer NAEOIS (10), 35 miles off the Scaw on 21 December 1808.
Her master was Giermund Holm and he had a crew of 26.
They had been out from Fridricksvern one day without taking anything.
On 2 March 1809 Mr STEWART, commander of the LORD NELSON packet had brought a Danish national cutter AALBORG (6) to close action when EGERIA came on the scene and completed the capture.
The cutter was bound for Norway with army clothing. - On the 30 December 1811 EGERIA, at Leith, was ordered to sea to search for stragglers from a Baltic convoy and early the following day, some 70 miles off St Abb's Head, she fell in with and captured the Danish privateer cutter ALVOR.
Of 70 tons, having 14 guns mounted and with 38 men she was 15 days out of North Ber Gen. - 1814 Sheerness.
- 1823 Capt. Samuel ROBERTS, 01/1823, West Indies.
Returned home on 13 July 1825 from Vera Cruz and Havana with specie and cochineal.
Mr Morier, the late British Commissioner in Mexico, was a passenger.
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