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SPEEDWELL
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Purchased in 1796. |
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- 1796 Lieut. WILLIAMS, 01/1796.
- 1798 Lieut. REDDY, 08/1798, Sheerness.
On 24 September 1799 SPEEDWELL took part in an expedition into the Zuyder Zee under Vice-Ad MITCHELL which culminated in a landing at Enkhausen where the inhabitants expressed their pleasure at being delivered from the Batavian Republic and their loyalty to the house of Orange.
ESPIEGLE and SPEEDWELL were sent to scour the coast from Severen to Lemmer to determine the disposition of the people.
(BABET, DART, ESPIEGLE, LADY ANN and SPEEDWELL went into the Zuyder Zee.
ISIS, MELPOMENE and JUNO, which were off shore with yards and top-masts struck due to the gale which had been blowing the day before, supplied all the marines and seamen which could be spared) - 1803 Out of commission at Sheerness in the spring.
Later in the year commanded by Lieut. ROBERTSON. She sailed from Portsmouth on 20 November and returned from the Downs on 14 February 1804 with the ALBION and INDEFATIGABLE transports and several other outward bound vessels. - On 19 March 1804 SPEEDWELL entered Portsmouth with the American ship HAMPTON, C. Isaacs, master, which had been chased by several cruisers in the Channel but had out-sailed them.
Lieut. ROBERTSON had been lucky to come across her in the dark the previous night about 30 miles from the Isle of Wight.
HAMPTON was laden with property from English ships captured by French privateers and taken into Teneriffe.
Here it was sold to Dutch merchants who were shipping it to Amsterdam with papers pretending HAMPTON was bound for the neutral port of Emden. - On 9 May SPEEDWELL and PLUTO sailed to cruise off Cherbourg.
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