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NAUTILUS
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Built in 1807, Mistleythorn (Cruizer class).
Broken up in 1823. |
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- October 1807 to April 1808 Robert CLEPHANE.
Mediterranean. - 1808 Thomas DENCH, 24/04/1804, Coast of Portugal.
In May 1809 NAUTILUS brought home dispatches announcing that the French army under Soult had evacuated Lisbon. - 1811 Ditto, to Guernsey.
- 1812 -14 ditto, Mediterranean.
- Capt. DENCH captured the French privateer BRAVE off Carbonara on the 21 July 1812 and recaptured an English merchant vessel, her only prize.
The Frenchman carried five guns and had a crew of 112 men. - The French privateer brig LEONILDE was taken off the Esquerques on the 7 February 1813. She was armed with two long 18-pounders, two short 12-pounders, eight short 6-pounders and two 12-pounder carronades.
Three of her 83 men were wounded, one of whom died shortly after she struck.
0ff Alicata on the 24 May he took the French privateer xebec COLOMBE (4). She was one month out of Genoa and had taken only one prize which Capt. DENCH had retaken off Maritima on the 15th. - Capt. DENCH was invalided home in November 1814.
- 1815 John BRADLEY, Spithead for Lisbon and the Mediterranean.
- 1817-18 Deptford.
- 1819-22 Isham Fleming CHAPMAN, 12/1818, first employed on the St Helena station and afterwards in the West Indies.
From 18 January until 21 April 1821 CHAPMAN was in acting command of EURYALUS (42), returning to NAUTILUS and paying her off at Portsmouth in May 1822.
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