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PYLADES
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Sloop
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Built in 1794, Rotherhithe.
Wrecked in the Shetlands 26 November 1794, salvaged and repurchased in 1796.
Sold in 1815. |
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- 1799 Adam MACKENZIE, off the coast of Holland.
On 11 August PYLADES, ESPIEGLE and the cutter COURIER attacked the ex British gun-brig CRASH moored between Schiermonikoog and Groningen and forced her to surrender.
PYLADES had one man killed and two wounded.
The boats of the squadron then attacked a six gun Dutch schooner VENGEANCE and a battery on the island of Schiermonikoog.
The schooner blew up and the battery guns spiked or brought off. - 1800 James BOORDER re-fitting at Sheerness.
- 1803 A. S. BURROWES, Africa.
On 2 October 1804 PYLADES was ordered to be paid off at Sheerness and the Petty Officers and men turned over to other ships. - 1805 Brian HODGSON, fitting out at Sheerness 1807 G. M. BLIGH, off Cadiz Mediterranean.
- Off Cape Bon on 2 May 1808 he gave chase to a settee and captured her after five hours. She proved to be the privateer GRAND NAPOLEON, commanded by a Jaques Boniface Morrier with a crew of 38 men. She was pierced for ten guns but with only four mounted and one of these had been thrown overboard during the chase. She had left Marseilles thirteen days before on a two month cruise but had made no captures.
Six days earlier he had captured a French tartan bound for Tripoli from Porto Ticho in Corsica with a cargo of 700 musket-barrels and locks. - 1809 Henry WHORWOOD, 12/1808, Mediterranean.
- 1811 George FERGUSON, Mediterranean.
On 14 December 1809 he captured the French privateer AIGLE, armed with ten carriage guns and two swivels and with a crew of 80 men.
Refitting at Deptford in October 1810 to the Greek Archipelago.
Early in 1811 PYLADES' first lieutenant was ordered by Capt. FERGUSON to take charge of an armed ketch, GLEANER, and sent on a cruise to examine Greek ships for French cargoes. - 1812 James WEMYSS, Spithead Mediterranean.
On the night of 18 June 1813 ALCMENE and PYLADES, searching for a fast-sailing brigantine of one gun and 40 men, got on either side of her and forced her ashore under Cape Cavallo. - IMPERIEUSE RESISTANCE, PYLADES, SWALLOW and ECLAIR had been off Anzio watching a convoy for some days at the beginning of October 1813 and waiting for an opportunity to attack.
On the morning of 5 October they were joined by Capt. DUNDAS in EDINBURGH and at half past one in the afternoon the ships bore up to take their stations: IMPERIEUSE and RESISTANCE to the two mole batteries of six heavy guns, SWALLOW to a tower with one gun to the northward.
PYLADES and ECLAIR, supported by EDINBURGH were stationed off a two gun battery to the southward. - The ships opened fire together on a signal and a storming party of seamen and marines under Lieut. TRAVERS and Capt. MITCHELL, Royal Marines, landed under the southern battery which was immediately deserted by the enemy.
Lieut. MAPLETON took possession of the mole head and twenty-nine vessels were brought out without loss.
Twenty of them were laden with timber for the arsenal at Toulon.
All the defensive works were blown up and destroyed. - PYLADES took part in the attack on Genoa in April 1814 which resulted in the surrender of that city on the 13th.
Lieut. John BEWICK was killed. - 1814 John Charles Gawes ROBERTS, 04/1814, North America.
In September Capt. ROBERTS used his boats to recapture a ship named BETSY of 600bm with a cargo of spice which had been taken off Sumatra by an American privateer.
The captain and two men were wounded.
Later, under the orders of Ad. HOTHAM off New London, he blockaded Newport R. I.
and captured and destroyed many American vessels.
After the peace PYLADES was sent with despatches to Cumberland Is.
and thence to the West Indies.
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