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Le San Josepho

13500
San Joseph St Joseph
Nominal Guns14ref:692
NationalityEmpire Français
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1807ref:692
Home PortSt Malo - Brittany ref:692
ShipyardUnknownref:692
CategoryPrivateerref:692
Ship TypeBrigantineref:692
Captured29.9.1810ref:692

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentBG
Burthen100Ton 
DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen220French Tonneaux216.359 

Armament


1807Broadside Weight Unknownref:692
Gun Deck14 French Canons de Fonte

1809Broadside Weight Unknownref:692
Gun Deck8 French Canons de Fonte

1810Broadside Weight = 1.5 French Livre (1.6188 lbs 0.7344 kg)ref:692
Gun Deck6 French Swivel
Gun Deck10 French Canons de Fonte

29.9.1810Broadside Weight UnknownBG
Gun Deck14 French Canons de Fonte

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1807 - 1809
Thomas des EssartsFrench
Ship Owner
ref:692

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
1807103 ref:692
180946for 8 guns with Wittewrongueltref:692
181072 ref:692
29.9.181068 BG

3 Ship Commanders


DatesRankNameSource
1807 - 7.4.1809Capitaine de Corsaire
François Auguste BlanchardFrench
Privateer
Merchant Sailor
Service 1781-1809
ref:692
1809Capitaine de Corsaire
Suliac GirodrouxFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1809
ref:692
1809 - 29.9.1810Capitaine de Corsaire
Joseph WittevronghelDanish
Privateer
Service 1809-1810
ref:692

Service History


DateEventSource
1807

From 1807 to 1809 , took the ships "Deux Soeurs ", "Amiral Betzy" and "Hawke"

ref:692
aft.7.4.1809

No date

Disarmed by Captain Olivier

Part wage : 864 Francs

ref:692
7.4.1809

Disarmed by Captain Blanchard

Part wage for the cruises : 444 Francs

ref:692
29.9.1810Taken by
Rhin (38) 1806-1884
British 38 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
off the Lizard .
BG
29.9.1810Taken by the British off the Lizard .BG
29.9.1810Taken by
Wolverine (16) 1805-1816
British 16 Gun
Unrated Sloop
off the Lizard .
BG


Notes on Ship


CaptureBG

Admiralty-Office, September 29 , 1810 .

Copy of a letter from Captain Malcolm of His Majesty's Ship the Rhin , addressed to the Honourable Rear-Admiral Stopsord , and transmitted by Admiral Lord Gambier to John Wilson Croker , Esq.

Sir , I have the honour to inform you , that at 4 P.M. , after a chace of 2 hours and an half , I captured off the Lizard , the French Schooner Privateer San Joseph , of St. Malo , of about 100 Tons , pierced for 16 guns , but only mounting 14 , and 68 men , commanded by Joseph Wittevronghel , a Dane ; she sailed last evening at 6 o'Clock , and had taken nothing ; she is only 1-year old , copper-bottomed and fastened , a most beautifull vessel , and sails remarkably well . His Majesty's Sloops "Little Belt" and "Wolverine" were in company , the latter , I find , had been in chace of her from 11 A.M.

I have the Honour to be, &c.

C . Malcolm



 
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Posted by A. Morddel on Wednesday 22nd of March 2023 11:54

San Joseph was captured off the Lizard on 23 September 1810, by the Rhin, Little Belt and Wolverine.
London Gazette, no. 16408, page 1510, 28 September 1810


Prizes of the San Joseph in 1809:

Liberty
Tom, British
Britania
Exertion, American
Transfer, of Lynn (wrecked and saved by the Hawk, so included with the Hawk)
Hawk, of Poole
Jane or Jeane, of Poole
Norfolk (ransomed)
Christiana Elisabeth, of Stockholm (ransomed)
Crawford, of Liverpool
Two Friends, of Malta
Aimable Betsey, of Leith
True Love
William & Jane

Sources:
SHD Brest
1P10-118
2Q 168


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