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RAVEN The French L'ARETHUSE taken by EXCELLENT off L'Orient 10 October 1799. 390bm 107x30 ft.
Lost in 1804.

  • 1800 Plymouth.
  • 1801 Capt. SAUNDERS, Channel.
    RAVEN left Portsmouth for the Downs on 13 May and returned with a convoy on 9 September and sailed for the West Indies. She returned to Portsmouth from Jamaica on 10 April 1802.
  • 1802 Spelman SWAINE, 07/1802, Portsmouth.
    RAVEN went out of the harbour to Spithead on 23 September 1802 after re-commissioning and on 13 October she and SOPHIE sailed for Jersey with troops.
    Then to the Mediterranean where SWAINE carried dispatches to Tangiers, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Valetta.
    During October 1803 RAVEN led NELSON's fleet through the Bocche di Bonifacio between Sardinia and Corsica to an anchorage among the Maddalena Is.
    (Agincourt Sound), the first time that 3-deckers ever attempted the intricate navigation.
  • On 6 January 1804 she was wrecked by an unusual current near Mazara in the west of Sicily.
    The crew were saved by a merchantman in company and taken aboard the KENT (74).


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