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PIONEER
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Schooner
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Built in 1810, Upnor.
Coast Guard in 1824.
Sold in 1849. |
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- 1811 Lieut. Row MORRIS, Basque Roads.
- 1812 Downs.
PIONEER and the DECOY cutter captured the French privateer lugger INFATIGABLE on 9 May 1812. She was six hours out of Boulogne and her commander and nine men of her 29 men crew were wounded before she struck.
On the 11 September PIONEER and DWARF off Boulogne chased a French lugger under the bows of BERMUDA.
The lugger did not surrender until she had received several broadsides of grape. She was the privateer BON GENIE which had sailed from Boulogne the previous night with four mounted guns and 60 men. - 1814 Lieut. STEVENS, Halifax.
- 1815 Lieut. John MILL, Portsmouth.
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