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AGGRESSOR
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Gun-brig
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Built in 1801, Blackwall.
Sold in 1815. |
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- 1801 Lieut. THOMPSON. She sailed from Portsmouth to Jersey and on 17 October she took dispatches to the squadron off Le Havre.
Paid off at Plymouth on the 8 June 1802 she re-commissioned and sailed on a cruise, making several trips between Plymouth and Portsmouth. - She went into harbour at Plymouth for a refit on the 30 December 1802 and left on 3 February 1803 on a cruise against smugglers.
- 1803 Lieut. George HAYES.
In the summer of 1803 she was stationed off Orfordness for the protection of trade at the entrance to the Thames. She came under the orders of Commodore Sir Sidney SMITH and rendezvoused with the flagship in Hosely (or Hosley, now Hollesley) Bay, 8 miles north of Felixstowe. - 1805 Lieut. John WATSON, North Sea.
- 1812 Ditto, Heligoland.
- 1814, ditto, North Sea. He was promoted to commander in June 1814.
- 1815 Lieut. James MORGAN, who, because of the state of his financial affairs had been obliged to resign command of BARBARA the previous summer, commanded AGGRESSOR during the return of Napoleon from Elba.
He moved to PICTOU after Waterloo and AGGRESSOR was sold in November.
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