TICKLER
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Gun-brig
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Built in 1804, Brightlingsea. Taken in 1808. |
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- 1805 Lieut. John W. SKINNER, Downs.
On 8 January 1805 TICKLER arrived in the Downs with a French officer she had taken out of a fishing boat Which came out of Boulogne Harbour under flag of truce. He had a dispatch from Talleyrand to Lord Harrowby which had been sent express from Paris. - 1808 Ditto, Baltic.
On 4 June 1808 TICKLER was attacked by 4 Danish gunboats in the Great Belt. Becalmed, she held out for four hours before being forced to surrender with her captain dead and 36 others killed and wounded out of a crew of 50. Only one officer was wounded on the Danish side.
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