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HMS Autumn (1801)

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also participated in an attack on the Boulogne flotilla on 2 October 1804 using explosive catamarans. He was ordered to lay alongside French Admiral Bruix. As he approached the Admiral's praam the string to operate the clock slipped out of his hand. He broke open the hatch on the catamaran, retrieved
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behest and bombarded the French gun boats at Calais. The objective of the engagement was to prevent the French at Calais from linking up with the French flotilla at Boulogne. The commencement of a gale forced the British to withdraw. With the British squadron having withdrawn, Over the next two days
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and commenced to fire on the fort while guns from squadron were being landed to establish a breaching battery. After the mortar shells blew up the fort's magazine, the garrison surrendered though the battery had not yet commenced fire. Captain Stoddard and Captain Zehnpfennig entered the fort and
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Early in 1804, a division of the French flotilla was discovered to be sailing along the French coast to Boulogne protected by shore batteries. The British vessels in the area attacked and were able to drive several vessels onto the beach. However, most succeeded in reaching Boulogne.
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the string and stepped into his gig as he pulled it. Twenty-five seconds later the vessel exploded but the explosion did no damage except remove the praam's bowsprit. When Jackson returned to the Downs he was invited to dine with Prime Minister
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The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Strombolo bomb, of 320 tons", "lying at Woolwich", for sale on 9 February 1815. She sold on that day for £1,680.
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During 1812 she came under the command of Commander Thomas Hichens, Commander John Stoddard on 3 July, then Grove again, and Commander John Smith in August.
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had been sailing from Bristol to London when a French privateer had captured her and taken her into Boulogne, where her cargo was landed.
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was at Portsmouth where she underwent fitting as a receiving ship. In October 1809 Commander Corbet James d'Auvergne recommissioned her.
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leaky. She had been traveling from Petersburg to London. It was expected that she would be obliged to discharge her cargo.
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also joined the operation. Although most of the French vessels escaped, the British were able to drive a handful on shore.
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purchased her in 1801. The Navy sold her in 1815 and she returned to mercantile service. She was lost in 1818.
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had been lost, with all her cargo, on the coast of Iceland on 29 October 1817. All 20 crew members were lost.
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was recommissioned by Commander Samuel Jackson on 10 May 1803. He sailed for the French coast on 31 July.
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At some point Commander Samuel Grove resumed command. Commander Stoddard again commanded
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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
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In the evening of 20 July there were more than 80 French brigs and luggers in the
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was refitted at Portsmouth as a bomb vessel. On 15 February 1811 she was renamed
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of Boulogne. As the weather worsened, a number of the vessels set sail. Captain
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sailed for the Mediterranean but grounded the next day on Sconce Point, near
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the French succeeded in getting over 50 boats from Calais to Boulogne.
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had gotten off with little damage and she then sailed for Gibraltar.
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with Bachelor, master, Ratenbury, owner, and trade London–Quebec.
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By June 1813 Commander John Stoddart had again assumed command of
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as she was on her way to Calais and they sent her into Dover.
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On 27 September Jackson took a small squadron at Rear Admiral
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which they retook in February 1805. It was believed that
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lost one man killed and six wounded in the operation.
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was launched at Shields in 1800 as a merchantman. The
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Index

HMS Strombolo
bm
sloop
carronades
QD
Royal Navy
the Downs
HMS Abundance
The Needles
Isle of Wight
Morgiana
Montagu's
roads
Owen
Immortalite
Harpy
Bloodhound
Archer

William Pitt
Lord Harrowby
Lord Melville
post-captain
Thomas Searle
HMS Biter
Manly
Pincher
HMS Invincible
Thames
Brune

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