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HMS Gipsy (1804)

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was armed with one long brass 18-pounder amid-ships, and four 12-pounder carronades; she carried 83 men, and had been out from Trinidad in Cuba for three months but had made no captures. In the action the Spaniards had eight men killed and six wounded; the British had only one man wounded. Boyd sent
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to escort to Cape Antonio (the extreme south-west of Cuba), a merchant vessel sailing from Port Royal to Vera Cruz. On their way back, on 27 December, the two schooners fell in with a Spanish privateer schooner that they captured after a running fight. The privateer
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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
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was purchased at Jamaica in December 1804. She was probably the Dutch schooner
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s commander as possibly Lieutenant John Boyd, but Boyd was the commander of
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Index

HMS Gipsy
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Schooner
Dacres
Jamaica Station
HMS Gracieuse



Winfield (2008)
"No. 16130"
The London Gazette
ISBN
978-1-86176-246-7
Categories
1800s ships
Captured ships
Schooners of the Royal Navy

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