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SCOURGE
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Brig-sloop
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Built in 1779, Dover.
Foundered in 1795. |
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- 1793 William Stap.
She sailed from Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight on Thursday 7 March with a convoy of nine vessels for Newfoundland. They parted company 80 leagues to the westward of the Scillies on the 11th. and, the same afternoon, captured a French privateer of 14 guns, 9 pounders and 82 men.
(SCOURGE only had 8 guns and 70 men and boys on board)
On Wednesday 13 March they fell in with a richly laden French ship from Marseilles to Havre de Grace and brought her into Plymouth.
With a ship full of French prisoners they had always to be on watch with a brace of pistols in the pocket. Since the French ship had come through the Straits they had to perform quarantine. - Foundered off the Dutch coast on 7 November 1795
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