Rosario

Posted by Brian on Wednesday 2nd of July 2014 01:51

1810/12/10 Took the Privateer Lugger Le Mamelouk off Dungeness
The London Gazette, Publication date:11 December 1810
Admiralty-Office December 15, 1810
Letter from Captain Harvey of the Rosario
I have the honour to inform you that, cruzing off Dungenese this evening, wind westerly, blowing hard, I fell in with two of the enemy's Lugger privateers, which evidently meant to board us; knowing their superiority of sailing, I immediately ran the nearest one along side, and Lieutenant Thomas Daws with the boarders in a short time succeeded in carrying her; we were then engaged on the starboard side with the other Lugger, who effected her escape, having lost our jib-boom in boarding the captured one. She proves to be Le Mamelouck French Lugger privateer, of sixteen guns and forty five men, commanded by Norbez Lawrence, nine hours from Boulogne, and had made no capture. I have to regret that we have five wounded, two severely, the enemy seven wounded.