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ARMADA (74) Built in 1810, Turnchapel.
Sold in 1863.

  • 1810 Capt. Adam MACKENZIE, Channel.
    On 22 November NORTHUMBERLAND, with ARMADA in company, captured the the French privateer ketch LA GLANEUSE (14). In a chase the previous day she had been prevented from taking one of his Majesty's post office packets. Commanded by Andre Haste she had been out from St Malo for 6 weeks without making a capture.
  • 1812 Capt. Charles GRANT, Sheerness. Fitting out for the Mediterranean.
  • On 19 July 1813 the batteries on the point of Bordighera opened up on ARMADA as she drifted, becalmed, close inshore. As the shot passed over them the marines under Capt. Hore were landed in the boats commanded by Lieut. PARSONS and took possession of the eastern battery, spiked the guns and destroyed the powder. The battery on the point was blown up by the enemy, killing the man who set off the charge. When a detachment of marines under Lieut. Brown came under musket fire from townspeople assisting the few soldiers the boats on the beach were burnt. The governor, who had been taken prisoner, was sent ashore with a promise that the town would be levelled if any more attacks were made. So, when they drilled the spikes from the guns in one of the batteries and opened fire, some 30 broadsides were poured into the town. ARMADA had two men wounded and she was struck by a single shot which did no damage.
  • In November, while serving with the inshore squadron off Toulon, a shot from a French ship passed through the bows of her launch and lodged among the booms without doing more damage.
  • After sailing from Melazzo on 30 November 1813 with a squadron carrying troops, Capt. Sir Josias ROWLEY in AMERICA fell in with ARMADA and IMPERIEUSE off the north of Corsica.
    He detained them to assist in getting the troops ashore at Via Reggio on 9 December.
    On the 13th. the marines of AMERICA, ARMADA, EDINBURGH, IMPERIEUSE, FURIEUSE, RAINBOW, TERMAGANT and MERMAID, all under the command of Capt. Beale of Armada, landed at Livorno (Leghorn). The marines were attacked by 700 troops, cavalry and infantry, from Pisa. The enemy lost about 250 to 300 killed wounded and prisoner. ARMADA had three marines badly wounded, Richard Gorton, John Snell and Robert Clark.
  • ARMADA, CURACAO and 12 Sicilian gunboats arrived off Savona on 23 April 1814 to co-operate with the British and Sicilian troops in reducing the fortress. When the French commander refused to surrender on the 24th., a cannonade was commenced from the ships, gunboats and a battery and within an hour the flag of truce was hoisted and the fortress capitulated.
  • On 1 September ARMADA was escorting a convoy of ten sail to Gibraltar when, about 200 miles west of Ushant, they were repeatedly attacked by the American sloop WASP, operating out of L'Orient. Though chased off again and again by the line-of-battle ship Capt. Blakely finally succeeded in cutting out one of the convoy laden with iron and brass cannon and other military stores.
  • 1815 Out of commission at Plymouth.


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