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CYGNET
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Built in 1819, Portsmouth (Cherokee class).
Sold in 1835. |
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- 1820 22 Thomas BENNETT, 07/1819, St. Helena until the death of Napoleon and then the Cape of Good Hope.
On 10 July 1822 she was caught in a tremendous north-west gale in Table Bay. The SARAH, a free trader of 900 bm. with a valuable cargo, parted one anchor, swung into the hawse cable of CYGNET and started to sink. CYGNET managed to haul ahead on her capstan and allow the sinking ship to drift past her before foundering. All her crew but four were rescued by CYGNET's boats. The boatswain of CYGNET was drowned when he went over the bow without a lifeline to free a hawser. - CYGNET accompanied Commodore NOURSE to Madagascar and Zanzibar and made two trips to Ascension with stores. She paid off at Portsmouth in the spring of 1823.
- 1824 James GOODING, 11/1823, Packet service, Falmouth.
- 1833 In ordinary at Plymouth.
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