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SNAP (12) Gun-brig Built in 1812, Lyme Regis.
Hulk in 1827.

  • 1813 William Bateman DASHWOOD, 22 July 1813, Channel.
    (Capt. DASHWOOD lost an arm in ACTIVE and was granted a pension of 91.5s in July 1812) On the morning of the 1 November 1813 SNAP was five miles off St. Valery when Capt. DASHWOOD discovered five enemy luggers, three to the north-west to windward and two to leeward.
    He wore and closed with the former and brought them to action but they separated and escaped so he turned his attention to the other two and enticed one of them alongside. She surrendered after about ten minutes and proved to be the LION, a privateer of Boulogne with 16 guns and a complement of 69 men. She was two days out of Dieppe and had made no captures.
    Her captain and four others were killed and six wounded.
    SNAP had no casualties but her rigging was badly cut.
    Capt. DASHWOOD removed to PROMETHEUS on 15 November 1814.
  • 1815 George KING, Sheerness.
  • 1820 Sheerness.
  • 1822 Lieut. John HOSE, 03/1821, Surveying Vessel, Newfoundland.
  • 1823-25 Lieut. Fred.
    BULLOCK, 03/1823, ditto.
  • 1827 Deptford.


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