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Camilla (1800 ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameCamilla
OwnerShane & Co.
BuilderFrance[1]
Launched1799[1]
Acquired1800 by purchase of a prize
CapturedLate 1800 or early 1801
General characteristics
Tons burthen285[1][2] (bm)
Complement38[2]
Armament18 × 9-pounder guns[2]

Camilla was built in France in 1799 and was taken in prize by the British. Camillia first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1800 with Caitchern, master, Swane & Co., owners, and trade London–Barbados.[1] Captain Robert Hunter Caitchion acquired a letter of marque on 20 August 1800.[2]

LL reported on 16 January 1801 that the French privateer Mouche had captured three vessels:[3][Note 1]

  • Camilla, Calcheon, master, sailing from London to Barbados;
  • Defiance, Pervis, master, Liverpool to Madeira; and
  • Elizabeth, Liverpool to Demerara.

The entry for her in the 1801 LR carries the annotation "Captured".[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Mouche probably was a 14-gun privateer from Dunkirk commissioned in 1799. She did a first cruise under Pierre-François Lefebvre, from Calais, with 60 men and 14 guns, from 1799 to 1800. She made a second cruise in 1801 under a Captain A.-T. Warnier, from Calais, with 43 men and 14 guns. Her third cruise took place under Pierre-François Lefebvre with about 60 men and 14 guns from August 1801 to later the same year.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d LR (1800), "C" supple. pages.
  2. ^ a b c d "Letter of Marque, p.55 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ LL 16 January 1801, №4117.
  4. ^ Demerliac (2004), p. 227, n°1526.
  5. ^ LR (1801), Seq.№C31.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)