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PYRAMUS
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Built in 1810, Portsmouth.
Receiving ship in 1832. |
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- 1810 Capt. Francis DASHWOOD, late of FRANCHISE, was appointed her first commander while she was fitting out at Portsmouth for the Baltic station.
In the Baltic he captured the NORSK MOD, a Danish privateer schooner with three masts, of 6 guns, 4 swivels and 28 men. - Capt. DASHWOOD was left in the Baltic during the winter of 1811 as commander of a squadron of 10 frigates and smaller vessels to collect part of the Baltic convoy.
By going through the Malmo channel instead of the Great Belt as ordered he saved it from the destruction that overcame the ST GEORGE and the DEFENCE which were lost upon the coast of Jutland on 24 December 1811 during a great storm. - PYRAMUS captured twelve American vessels during 1812.
At the end of the year Capt. DASHWOOD moved to CRESSY. - 1812 Capt. James Whiteley Deans DUNDAS, 09/1812, after a temporary appointment to VENERABLE.
At the close of the year he brought Sir James SAUMAREZ from Gottenburg to England.
On 20 April 1813 PYRAMIS and BELLE POULE captured the American letter of marque ZEBRA of 10 guns and 38 men off Ushant. She was bound for New York from Bordeaux.
The French privateer schooner LA VILLE DE L'ORIENT of 14 guns and 97 men was taken on 18 February 1814.
Only two months old she had taken nothing in the five days she had been out. - 1815 in ordinary at Plymouth.
- 1832 Receiving ship at Halifax.
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