A HISTORY OF DORSET 



Cheerly (gunbrig), 177 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1804. Services: N.S. 1805 

 (Lieut. G. Huish) ; Ch. (Plymouth) 1 806-8 (Lieut. G. Fullerton) ; Brazil 1809-10 ; Ch. (Downs) 

 1811-12; Baltic 1813; N.S. 1814. Sold 1815. 



Fly (sloop), 286 tons, 16 guns ; built at Bridport 1805. Services ; Ch. i8o6(c. W. H. Dobbie) ; 

 Cape 1807 (c. John Thompson) ; Ch. (Downs) 1808-9 5 ^* ^"'^ ^* 1810 (c M. H. Dixon) ; 

 Baltic i8ii— 12 (c. Hen. Hyman). Wrecked 29 Feb. 181 2, on the Isle of Anholt. 



Indignant (gunbrig), 182 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1805. Services: Ch. 1805-6 ; 

 Baltic 1807. Downs, 1808-9. Broken up 1812. 



Intelligent (gunbrig), 179 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1805. Services: Ch. 1805—6 

 (Lieut. Nich. Tucker); Baltic 1807; Ch. 1808-9; off Cherbourg 1810-14. Sold 1815. 



Inveterate (gunbrig), 182 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1805. Services: Ch. 1806-7 

 (Lieuts. Horace Petley and Geo. Norton). Wrecked near St. Valery en Caux, 18 Feb. 1807. 



Carrier (cutter), 54 tons, 6 guns; built at Bridport 1805. Services: Ch. (Lieuts. L. R. 

 Ramsey and Wm. Milne) took La Ragoten^ 8, on 20 Feb. 1807, and UActif, 2, on 14 Nov. 

 Wrecked near Etaples, 5 Feb. 1809. 



Frolic (sloop), 384 tons, 18 guns; built at Bridport 1806. Services: W.l. 1808-13 

 (c. Thos. Whinyates). Taken 18 Oct. l8i2 by the American sloop fVasp (56 k. and w.). Re- 

 captured the same day by the Poictiers, 74, which also took the Wasp. Broken up by A.O. 

 21 Oct. 1813. 



Laurel (6th rate), 520 tons, 22 guns; built at Bridport 1806. Services: C. and C. 1807 

 (c. J. C. Woolcombe) ; Cape of Good Hope 1808, taken 15 Sept. 1808 by La Cannoniere, 36, off 

 Isle of France (28 k. and w.). Retaken 12 April 1810 by H.M.S. Unicorn, and renamed 

 Laurestinus. Cape 1811 (c. the Hon. Wm. Gordon) ; Ch. 1812 ; N.A. 1813 (c. Thos. Graham. 

 Wrecked near Halifax, 21 Aug. 1813. 



Philomel (sloop), 384 tons, 18 guns; built at Bridport 1806. Services: Med. 1807-14 

 (c. Geo. Crawley and Chas. Shaw). Sold 181 7. 



Egeria (sloop), 424 tons, 18 guns; built at Bridport 1807. Services: N.S. 1808-12 

 (c. Lewis Hole). Took Ncesois, 10, 21 Dec. 1808, and Aalhorg, 6, 2 March, 1809. R.S. Devon- 

 port 1825-60 ; Police ship, Devonport, 1860-4. 



Minstrel (sloop), 423 tons, 18 guns; built at Bridport 1807. Services: Med. 1807-14 

 (c. John HoUinworth and Robt. Mitford). Took Ortenzia, 10, 16 July, 1808. Sold 1817. 



Curlew (sloop), 382 tons, 18 guns; built at Bridport 1811. Services: N.A. 1813-14 

 (c. Mich. Head). Sold in East Indies 1822. 



Saracen (sloop), 382 tons, 18 guns; built at Bridport 1812. Services: Ch. 1812 

 (c. K. L. A. Harper), took Le Courier, 14, on 23 Sept. 1812 ; Med. 1813-14, landing parties took 

 the islands of Zupano and Mezzo (Adriatic) with their garrisons in June 1813. Sold 1819. 



Conflict (gunbrig), 180 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1812. Services: Newfoundland 

 (Lieut. H. L. Baker) 1813 ; C. and C. (A. M. Hawkins) 1814. R.S. Sierra Leone 1832-40. 

 Sold 1841. 



Contest (gunbrig), 180 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1812. Services: N.A. 1813— 14 

 (Lieut. Jas. Rattray), cutters of Contest and Alohawk cut out an American privateer 14 July, 

 1814. Wrecked near Halifax 14 April, 1828 ; all drowned. 



Snap (gunbrig), 180 tons, 12 guns; built at Lyme 1812. Services: C. and C. 1813-14 

 (Lieut. W. B. Dashwood), took Le Lion, 16, 6 Nov. 1813. 



Plumper (gunbrig), 180 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 1813. 



Swinger (gunbrig), 180 tons, 12 guns; built at Bridport 18 13. Services: C. and C. 1814 

 (Lieut. A. B. Branch). 



Fury (bombship), 325 tons, 8 guns; built at Bridport 1814. Services: Arctic Discovery 

 1821-3 (c. Sir W. E. Parry); second voyage 1824-5 C*^- H- ?• Hoppner). Wrecked in the 

 Arctic, 1825. 



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