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PROSELYTE
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Purchased in 1804.
Lost in 1809. |
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- Capt. George SAYER was appointed to command her at the end of 1804 and early in 1805 she escorted a convoy of 150 merchant vessels and three regiments of infantry safely to Barbados past the ships of the Rochefort squadron which were at sea searching for them.
Capt. SAYER moved to GALATEA in July.
(PROSELYTE was later converted into a bomb and on 9 November 1808 she was ordered to station herself off the island of Anholt carrying a light for the safety of convoys passing.
The outer end of the Anholt reef to bear N. E. by N. distant 5 miles. She was wrecked in the Baltic in January 1809 under the command of Henry James LYFORD.)
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