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SPEEDWELL Brig A brig privateer of London.
  • At the beginning of July 1801 she captured the St. Malo privateer schooner MALOUIN, Capt. L'Orient.
    The presence of 46 English prisoners on aboard prevented the Frenchman getting out his sweeps, otherwise he would have escaped in the light airs.
    MALOUIN had been responsible for capturing a large number of homeward bound vessels from the West Indies.
    When she arrived in Plymouth on 16 July, one of the prisoners, the captain of the PRINCESS OF WALES, belonging to Messrs. Vaughans of London, was surprised to find his old ship in the Cattewater; she had been recaptured by the privateers LORD NELSON of Plymouth and TRIMMER of Portsmouth. She was said to be worth 36,000 pounds.


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