HMS Elizabeth (1805 cutter) explained
HMS Elizabeth was a Spanish dispatch cutter named
Elizabet that
HMS Bacchante captured off Havana in 1805. The British
Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. She disappeared in 1807, believed foundered without a trace.
Capture
On 3 April 1805, Bacchante captured the Spanish naval cutter or schooner Elizabeth of ten guns and 47 men under the command of Don Josef Fer Fexegron. Elizabeth had been carrying dispatches from the Spanish governor of Pensacola, but had thrown these overboard before her capture.
HMS, and loss
The Royal Navy commissioned Elizabeth in 1806 under Lieutenant John Sedley. She disappeared c. September 1807 without a trace, presumed to have foundered with all hands.
See also
References
- Gilly, William O.S. (1864) Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy Between 1793 and 1857 Compiled Principally from Official Documents in the Admiralty. (Longman, Green).
- Book: Hepper, David J.. 1994. British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Jean Boudriot. Rotherfield. 0-948864-30-3.
- Book: Rif . Winfield . British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth Publishing. 2008 . 978-1-86176-246-7.