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SQUIRREL (24) Built in 1785, Liverpool.
Sold in 1817.

  • 1787 Capt. DREW (from Saltash) Cork.
  • 1789 At Plymouth at the end of the year for repairs.
  • 1790 Lieut. BIRDWOOD, pro tem.
    until the arrival of Capt. O'Brien DRURY on 17 January.
    Two days later a royal salute was fire from all the ships and forts at Plymouth to celebrate Queen Charlotte's birthday.
  • 1799 Capt. HAMSTEAD, Jamaica.
    In the early part of the year she and MUSQUITO captured a Spanish schooner from Port-au-Plat with dollars.
    Rebuilt during 1801.
  • 1803 Out of commission at Woolwich.
  • 1804 Capt. Ernest BRAWN, On 17 February he captured a French schuyt, ESPERANCE No.
    626, off Dover.
    Commanded by Emanuel Vandersweip she had sailed the previous night from Ostend for Boulogne.
    About 40 tons she was fitted out to carry 8 horses.
    Capt. BRAWN died off the coast of Africa in 1805.
  • 1805 Capt. John SHORTLAND.
    In July 1805 the main mast of SQUIRREL was taken out at Portsmouth to show the striking marks of lightning. She had been struck twice off the coast of Africa, once in a tornado at Senegal and another time in a thunderstorm at Cape Coast.
    On both occasions the two main top-masts, two royal-masts and two top-gallant masts were broken in pieces.
    The last flash struck the main-mast and shattered it so much that they could not carry sail on it.
    It went through the ship and out the side having stove a plank and loosened all the caulking from the fore to the main chains.
    The master's mate was knocked down, deprived of speech for two days and struck blind for three weeks.
    The captain, who was partly struck, appeared to those around as in a blaze of fire.
  • 1807 Halifax station.
  • 1810 Mediterranean
  • 1811 in ordinary at Portsmouth.


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