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ATTENTIVE
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Gun-brig
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Built in 1804, Bridport.
Broken up in 1815. |
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- 1805 Lieut. HARRIS, Jamaica.
- 1807 Lieut. Robert CARR, Leeward Is.
In the spring of 1807 the boats from ATTENTIVE cut out two doggers from the small port of Trinity on the North side of Martinique. On board one was an English negro who gave information that a sloop was lying unprotected a few miles to the windward. Two of ATTENTIVE's jolly boats left at nightfall with 12 men under the command of Mr Douglas COX. They had to battle against an adverse tide and it was the dawn the following morning before they entered the harbour. After he detached one of his boats to chase a small craft Lieut. COX suddenly discovered a guarda costa between him and the sloop. Despite musket fire and the threat of two long 6-pounder guns, the enemy was boarded and taken by Mr COX and his five companions with only one man wounded. They rejoined ATTENTIVE within two hours. - On 17 October 1807 ATTENTIVE captured the Spanish privateer lugger NUESTRA SENORA DEL CARMEN, Don Thomaso Lisaro, between Tobago and Trinidad. She was armed with two carriage guns, swivels and muskets and carried 63 men of whom three were wounded. The crew could man 40 sweeps in a calm. She had left Barcelona fifteen days before and had captured the sloop HARRIOT of St. Vincent.
- On the 14 December 1809 ATTENTIVE joined in an attack on the port of Deshales (La Hayes) on the east coast of Guadeloupe. For more than six hours the gunbrig poured fire on a battery and the French national brig NISUS, most of the time within range of enemy grape. Meanwhile the marines of THETIS, PULTUSK, ACHATES and BACCHUS, together with 75 seamen had landed and worked their way through thick woods and over a high hill to take the battery from the rear. The garrison numbering 300 men fled into the forest and the brig surrendered as soon as the guns were turned on her. Most of her crew got ashore before she was brought out by Capt. ELLIOTT of PULTUSK.
The NISSUS had left L'Orient on 30 October and arrived at Guadeloupe on the 1 December with provisions. She was laden with coffee and ready to sail for France when taken. The battery was destroyed by spiking the guns and throwing the carriages and ammunition over the cliff. ATTENTIVE had two men wounded, Thomas BERRY, boatswain's mate, and Archibald CHAPMAN, quarter-master. - 1812 Deptford.
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