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CHEROKEE
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Built in 1808, Blackwall (Cherokee class).
Sold in 1828. |
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Armed with eight 18-pounder carronades and two long 6-pounders, and with a complement of 65 officers, men and boys. - 1808 Richard ARTHUR, 04/1808, Channel.
On 10 January 1810 she reconnoitred Dieppe and observed seven privateer luggers at anchor within a cable's length of the pier head under the batteries. At one o'clock the following morning he stood in and ran between two of them and laid one on board. The French made a fruitless attempt to board CHEROKEE but Capt. ARTHUR succeeded in taking one lugger, the AMIABLE NELLY, a new vessel of 106 tons with 16 guns and 60 men. CHEROKEE lost only two wounded, Lieut. GABRIEL and boatswain James RALPH, both in the hand. The French had two killed and eight wounded.
Cdr. ARTHUR was immediately promoted for his conduct, his post commission backdated to the day of the attack. - 1810-1812 William RAMAGE, 01/1810, Leith.
On the 9 October 1811 he captured a Danish privateer cutter, of 2 guns and 20 men, three days out of Ber Gen. - 1814 Ditto to Heligoland.
- 1815 Ditto, North Sea.
- 1816 Ditto, Leith.
- 1817 Thomas SMITH, 01/1817, Portsmouth.
- 1818 Ditto, Leith.
- 1820-1822 Theobald JONES, 02/1819, Leith.
- 1824 William KEATS, 08/1822, Leith.
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