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Built in 1813, Bideford (Cruizer class). Sold in 1832. |
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- 1817-18 Plymouth.
- 1818 George GOSLING, 15/07/1818, fitting out for Jamaica.
On 17 December 1819, while on a cruise off Cuba, she drove ashore and captured after a long chase among the Colorados, a pirate schooner formally the VELOY of Jamaica. She also retook a French merchant brig which had been bound for Havana from Marseilles. A German brig from Bremen was also rescued but a Spanish schooner whose crew the pirates had massacred was lost. Lieut. Whitworth LLOYD and two of his men were wounded in the boats.
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