Английская Википедия:Dutch frigate Proserpine (1801)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsProserpine was launched at Amsterdam in 1801 as a 32-gun frigate. The Royal Navy captured her in May 1804 at the capture of Surinam and took her into service as HMS Amsterdam. She sailed to England where she became a guard and storeship at Cork. She was sold in 1815.
Capture
The British captured Surinam from the Dutch on 5 May 1804. The Batavian flotilla that the British captured was under the command of naval Captain H. 0. Bloys Van Trestong, captain of Proserpine.[1] The other naval vessels were the corvette Pilades,[2] the schooner George (10 guns), and seven gunboats.[3]
Prize money in the amount of £32,000 was paid in March 1808 to the officers and crew of the Royal Navy vessels involved in the capture of the colony of Surinam.[4]
In December 1804, Amsterdam recaptured Шаблон:Ship, of Liverpool, Lawson, master, that a French privateer had captured as Horatio was sailing from Africa to the West Indies with a cargo of slaves. Horatio was taken into Demerara, where she landed 114 slaves. The report in the London Gazette gives the slave ship's name as Lord Nelson.[5] A report in Lloyd's List (LL) gave the vessel's name as Horatio, and also mentioned that the privateer had removed 160 of her people.[6] A later report revealed that the privateer had taken out 160 of her slaves, along with her crew, excepting the carpenter, boatswain, and one or two seamen.[7]
In May Captain Ferris was in command of Amsterdam and on 5 May she sailed from Antigua for England. She arrived at Spithead on 13 June and then went into Portsmouth Harbour. She was laid up in Ordinary there on 2 July. Her crew were distributed to Шаблон:HMS and Royal William.[7]
Between May and August 1806 Amsterdam underwent fitting as a storeship for Cork. Commander Alexander Innes commissioned her in May as a guardship at Cork. In June 1807 Commander Edward W. Hoare replaced Innes.Шаблон:Sfnp
Amsterdam shared with Шаблон:HMS and the ship's tender Cecilia in the proceeds of the detention on 31 August 1807 of the Danish vessels Aurora and Brothers.[8] Given that Trent was a hospital ship at Cork, the detention was certainly the work of Cecilia.Шаблон:Efn
In September 1809 Commander William Morce assumed command of Amsterdam. In May 1811 she was at Plymouth being fitted as a receiving ship. Between 1812 and 1814 she was in Ordinary at Plymouth.Шаблон:Sfnp
Fate
Amsterdam was sold at Plymouth on 9 August 1815 for £1,150.Шаблон:Sfnp
Notes
Citations
References
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Verhandelingen en Berigten Betrekkelijk het Zeewezen, Zeevaartkunde, de Hydrographie, de Koloniën, (1852), Vol. 12.
- ↑ Verhandelingen en Berigten..., (1852),Vol. 12, p.624.
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Naval Chronicle, vol. 14, p.346.
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ LL №4192.
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
