Nymphe

Posted by Tim Oakley on Sunday 17th of December 2017 21:02

23 May 1800 Plymouth, this morning Pollard (late a seaman of the Nymphe36, an active ringleader in the mutiny at Spithead in 1797, was sent to Exeter goal for sedition.

Posted by Brian on Thursday 15th of May 2014 20:22

The Gentleman's magazine. v. 80:pt. 2 (1810).
Dec 18 - The Nymphe frigate, of 36 guns, Hon. Capt. Clay, and the Pallas of 32, Capt. Monke were coming up the Firth this night, at half past ten, and were going at the rate of ten knots an hour, when the pilot mistook a lime-kiln, burning at Broxmouth, for the Isle of May light, and the May for the Bell rock; and both vessels consequently ran aground . In a quarter of an hour afterward the ships bottoms were broken out and the water above the hatchways. Signals of distress were made during the night, and answered from the shore from whence the vessels were not distant more than a cables length. By means of a life boat, the crews were all preserved. By the afternoon of the 19th, with the exception of about twelve men belonging to the Pallas, and one of the life-boat men , who were unfortunately drowned. The vessels have since gone entirely to pieces, and various parts of the wreck floated onto shore.