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THALIA
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Built in 1782, Bursledon as UNICORN, renamed THALIA the following year.
Broken up in 1814. |
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- 1793 Capt. GRINDALL.
- 1795 Capt. Hon. Lord H. PAULET.
- 1799 Capt. NESBIT, 11/1797, Mediterranean.
- 1807 Capt. Thomas MANBY, Jersey, where he spent a year in command of a small squadron.
Off Cherbourg on the morning of 29 October THALIA captured the French privateer lugger REQUIN (14) after a long chase. She was quite new and had left Fecamp two days earlier.
The following year Capt. MANBY, with MEDUSA and LOCUST under his orders, was sent into the Davis Strait in a fruitless search for two French frigates supposed to be threatening the Greenland fishery.
After 12 weeks of fog among icebergs THALIA and MEDUSA found an anchorage on the coast of Labrador, which Capt. MANBY named Port Manvers, before returning to England via Cadiz and Gibraltar. - 1811 Capt. J. G. VASHON, Jamaica.
- 1812 Out of commission at Chatham.
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