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- 1799 Lieut. Robert TOMLINSON, Channel.
Fifteen miles to the north-west of Guernsey SPEEDWELL and VALIANT captured the French privateer lugger ESPERANCE of St. Malo after a chase of six hours on the 5 December 1799.
Eight of her fourteen 3-pounders were thrown overboard in her attempts to escape. She had only 24 men on board having taken and manned four prizes, including a brig from Beaumaris captured that morning.
On the following evening after a chase of nine hours, including a running fight for over an hour, they captured a French privateer brig L'HEREUX SPECULATEUR two miles north of the islands.
Armed with fourteen 6-pounders and carrying 58 men she was commanded by Louise Joseph Quoniam.
He had been out for four days without taking any prizes although on previous cruises he had done a great deal of damage to English trade. The privateer lost one man killed and seven wounded. - 1801 to the Mediterranean. She returned home on 23 April from Rhodes bringing as a passenger from Port Mahon, Lieut. JUMP, late of the SPRIGHTLY cutter which had been sunk by Gantheaume's squadron in the Straits before SPEEDWELL left Minorca. Lieut. TOMLINSON landed at St. Michael's Bay with dispatches which he took by express to London.
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