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STARLING (14) Gun-brig Built in 1805, Newcastle.
Sold in 1816.
  • 1805 Lieut. Charles NAPIER, Downs.
    On the morning of 24 April 1805 26 enemy vessels were seen coming round Cap Gris Nez and Capt. HONEYMAN of LEDA ordered the detached squadron to attack them.
    (LEDA, FURY, HARPY, RAILLEUR, BRUIZER, GALLANT, LOCUST, TICKLER, WATCHFUL, MONKEY and FIRM) Seven schuyts were cut off and taken after an action lasting about two hours and RAILLEUR towed them into the Downs.
    STARLING, much damaged, followed her in.
    ARCHER took two more the following day.
  • 1807 Baltic expedition.
  • 1811-12 ditto, Baltic.
  • 1814-16 ditto, North Sea.

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