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TRIBUNE
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Built in 1803, Bursledon.
Wrecked in 1839. |
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- 1804 Capt. R. H.A.
BENNET, off Cherbourg.
On the morning of 30 January 1804 TRIBUNE fell in with a small French flotilla bound from St, Malo to Cherbourg.
It consisted of three brigs and some smaller vessels but, as it was blowing hard, only two brigs could be captured, each carrying two 34-pounders and one 18 pounder.
They were manned by 51 seamen and 50 soldiers.
Capt. BENNET sent them into Portsmouth.
A frigate, believed to be HYDRA, captured a lugger from the flotilla and went off in chase of another. - Capt BENNET appeared before a court martial at Portsmouth on 21 February 1805 to answer for his conduct in returning to England from Gibraltar without orders.
The charge was proved but the court decided that he was "actuated by the purest motives for the good of the navy" and he was acquitted. - 1805 Capt. Richard CURRY, (pro tem.) 04/1805, off Cherbourg, where he was employed watching the MINERVE, Capt. BRENTON's ship which had struck on the western part of the Cones and was forced to strike her colours by the fire from two forts in July 1803.
He remained on station until July. - 1807 Capt. Thomas BAKER, Channel.
- 1808 Capt. REYNOLDS, Baltic.
- 1818 Capt. N. J. WILLOUGHBY, 09/1818, Leeward Is.
- 1822 Capt. G. H. GUION, Mediterranean.
- 1825 Ditto, Lisbon.
- 1828 Capt. John WILSON, 01/1828, South America.
- 1830 Capt. John DUNTZE, 01/1829, South America.
- 1832 Sheerness.
- 1835 Capt. James TOMKINSON, 05/1834, Mediterranean.
- 1838 Capt. Charles Hamlyn WILLIAMS, 05/1838, Mediterranean.
TRIBUNE was wrecked near Tarragona on 28 November 1839.
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