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SYBILLE (44) Taken by Capt. Hon. W. PAGET in ROMNEY on 17 June 1794 in the Mediterranean. Hospital ship 1831.
  • Capt. Edward COOKE, 03/1795. He was killed in an action with LA FORTE.
  • Capt. Chas. ADAM, who was 23 years old. With Ad. RAINIER's squadron in the East Indies in June 1799.
    Assisted in capture of 5 Dutch armed vessels and destruction of 22 merchantmen in Batavia Roads on 23 August 1800.
    On 19 August 1801 she captured, after a short action in which the enemy used red-hot shot, the French national frigate CHIFFONE in Mahe Road. SYBILLE lost 2 seamen killed and a midshipman wounded.
    SYBILLE arrived in Madras Road with the rest of the Squadron on 22 May 1802 and he was presented with an elegant sword.
    On 20 April 1803 she was at Portsmouth to be paid off.
  • 1805 Capt. Rob. WINTHROP with the flag of Rear Ad. H. E. STANHOPE. Fitting out at Gravesend.
  • 1807 Capt. WINTHROP, Channel.
    On 3 May she captured the French letter-of-marque schooner L'OISEAU from Bordeaux for Cayenne. She was armed with 4 long 6-pounders and had made one capture, PERSEVERANCE, Barber, Master, from St. Michael's for London.
  • 1808 Capt. Clotworthy UPTON.
    On 25 January she captured the French privateer lugger GRAND ARGUS, Michael Daguinet, 4 guns, but pierced for 12, on her first cruise from Granville, but had made no captures in 3 days.
    On 16 August she captured the French brig-corvette ESPIEGLE, Capt. Maujouan, of 16 guns and 85 men.
    ESPIEGLE arrived in Cork on the evening of 31 August.
    In November SYBILLE was at Spithead for Corunna.
  • 1809 In the summer SYBILLE was sent to cruise off the Greenland ice for the protection of the whalers and also to convoy them home. (*)
  • 1810 On 8 October she captured the French brig privateer EDOUARD, Guillaume Moreau, of 14 guns and 90 men. Cork station.
  • 1813 Capt. James SANDERS, Newfoundland.
  • 1814 Capt. Thomas FORREST, coast of Spain by the end of the year. Spithead in January 1815 and the Channel in April.
  • 1816 Out of commission at Woolwich.
  • 1817 Commissioned in September by Capt. Charles MALCOLM for Jamaica.
    Re-commissioned by Capt, Joshua ROWLEY at Woolwich for the West Indies.
  • 1823 Capt John PECHELL, 01/7/1823, fitting out for the Mediterranean. She sailed there in October and for the next three years she was employed in the suppression of piracy committed by vessels under the Greek flag.
    In October 1824 Capt. PECHELL took letters to the provisional government in Napoli de Romania (Navplion at the head of the Gulf of Argoli) pointing out that it either made reparations or all armed vessels were liable to be seized.
    When he received no satisfactory answers he directed Lieut. GORDON to take SYBILLE's boats and capture three armed schooners, mounting 26 guns and carrying 179 men, lying behind a reef under the guns of the fortress.
    Capt. PECHELL took the schooners to Zante and landed the prisoners at Corfu.
  • In October 1825 SYBILLE and MEDINA, Capt. CURTIS, found a Greek mistico and her prize at anchor in a cove at Catacolo (Katakolon). She could only be approached through an intricate channel lined with armed men on the cliff tops. Nevertheless Lieut. GORDON, assisted by Admiralty Mate James Inglis, brought them out. Only one man remained to be taken prisoner. The Ionian prize was handed over to the authorities in Zante and the mistico sent to Corfu.
  • In August 1826 SYBILLE was ordered home and she was paid off in November.
    At a demonstration her guns were fired at a 8ft by 6ft target at a range of 350 yards. Out of 28 long guns at an elevation of 1 deg., 7 shot went through the mark, and of 19 carronades at 1.25 deg., 6 of them hit. All the other shots were close enough to hit a ship
  • 1826 Capt. .A. COLLIER, 04/12/26, Coast of Africa.
  • 1831 Harbour Service.
  • 1832 Sold 7 August.

    (*) Note from Ian Jackson.


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