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Derrepente | 22108 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 4 | BG | |
| Nationality | Spain | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1798 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Home Port | Bilbao - Biscay | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BWAS-1793 | |
| Category | Privateer | BG | |
| Ship Type | Lugger | BG | |
| Captured | 26.8.1798 | BWAS-1793 | |
Took 2 danish ships
BGAdmiralty-Office, September 9, 1797.
Extract of a letter from Vice-Admiral Kingfmill, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels on the Coast of Ireland, to Evan Nepean, Esq; dated on board the Penguin, Cork Harbour, tbe 3d of September,
Please to inform my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majesty's Ship Doris has sent in a Spanish Privateer Lugger, of 4 guns, besides swivels and small arms and 85 men, El Derrepente, of Bilboa, which she captured in Latitude 46 deg. 30 .min. Longitude 10 deg. 36 min. This Privateer had taken 2 danish vessels