TURBULENT
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Gun-brig
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Built in 1805, Dartmouth. Taken in 1808. |
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- 1805 fitting out at Plymouth.
- 1807 Lieut. T. S. OSMER, Downs.
Lieut. J. G. NOPS, North sea. On 9 June 1808 TURBULENT was one of the escorts for a convoy of seventy merchantmen. (The others were THUNDER, CHARGER and PIERCER). In the late afternoon the convoy was becalmed off Saltholm and 21 Danish gunboats and 7 mortar boats came out from Copenhagen to attack it. TURBULENT and a number of merchantmen were cut off, captured and taken back to Denmark
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