Английская Википедия:HMS Algerine (1810)

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HMS Algerine was a Pigmy–class 10-gun schooner of the Royal Navy. She was launched in March 1810. She served in the North Sea and then transferred to the West Indies, where she was wrecked in 1813.

Career

Algerine was commissioned in April 1810 under Lieutenant John Aitken Blow.Шаблон:Sfnp She served initially in the Downs. On 30 March 1811, Algerine, under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Greenwood, seized the smuggling vessel Mandamus. The account in the London Gazette refers to Algerine as a cutter.

On 13 July 1811, Algerine, again under Blow, and the 12-gun brig-sloop Brev Drageren, under Thomas Barker Devon, engaged three Danish brigs in Long Sound, Norway, the 20-gun Lolland, the 18-gun Lougen, and the 16-gun Kiel.Шаблон:Efn The Danes had 54 guns and 480 men, against the British 22 guns and 107 men;Шаблон:Efn

The next day Brev Drageren unsuccessfully re-engaged first one and then two of the brigs. In the inconclusive engagement each British vessel sustained one man killed and Brev Drageren also had three wounded. In the second day’s fight, Algerine sent a boat with ten men and sweeps to Brev Drageren, which helped her escape the Danes, though not until after her crew had rowed for 30 hours.Шаблон:Sfnp

On 15 July the gun-brig Шаблон:HMS, under Lieutenant J.B. Pettit (or Pettet), captured the Danish sloop Experiment, P. Loft, Master. Algerine shared in the prize money by agreement.

Early in September 1811, Primus, carrying tar and hemp, Worksam, in ballast, Experiment, carrying iron, Columbus, carrying linseed, Neptunus, carrying timber, and Hector, carrying sundry goods, came into Yarmouth. They were prizes to Шаблон:HMS, Шаблон:HMS, Шаблон:HMS, Algerine, Шаблон:HMS, Шаблон:HMS, and Шаблон:HMS.

In October, a court martial dismissed Blow from Algerine after he challenged a Captain Campbell of the Marines to a duel. Brenton suggests that this saved Blow from a serious investigation for his lack of aggressiveness in the action.Шаблон:Sfnp However, Clowes et al.Шаблон:Sfnp dispute this. Admiral Sir James Saumarez had transmitted to Blow the acknowledgments of the Board of Admiralty for his skillful manoeuvres, which detached the remainder of the enemy's force, and for his exertions in facilitating the subsequent escape of himself and consort. On 19 February 1813, Blow received an appointment to the Impress service at Folkestone, where he remained until August 1813. He then resumed his naval career, reaching the rank of captain in 1842.

Blow's successor was Lieutenant Daniel Carpenter, who took command in November 1811.Шаблон:Sfnp He sailed Algerine to the West Indies on 13 May 1812. On 8 February 1813, she was in an action with an American privateer that escaped, in which the British lost three men killed and seven or eight wounded. This single-ship action may have been with the American privateer Saratoga. Algerine returned to port in Jamaica, while Saratoga went on to capture the 600-ton (bm) merchant vessel Шаблон:Ship.Шаблон:Sfnp

Fate

Algerine escorted a convoy from Jamaica into the Atlantic via the Crooked Island Passage in the Bahamas.Шаблон:Sfnp As she was returning to Jamaica, she was wrecked on the Little Bahama Bank on 20 May 1813 when a heavy swell pushed her off course.Шаблон:Sfnp Although her crew had to abandon her, they and a large quantity of stores were saved and taken to New Providence.Шаблон:Sfnp

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• Daly, Gavin (2007) "English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814". Journal of British Studies 46 (1), pp. 30–46.
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