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La Désirée | 29988 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 14 | BG | |
| Nationality | République Française | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 4.4.1805 | BG | |
| Home Port | Guadeloupe - Leeward Islands | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BG | |
| Category | Privateer | BG | |
| Ship Type | Schooner | BG | |
| Captured | 8.4.1805 | BG | |
His Majesty's Ship Barbadoes, at sea, April 8,1805.
SIR I beg leave to inform you, that His Majesty's Ship Barbadoes, under my command, this day captured, in sight of the Island of Barbadoes, La Desiree French Privateer Schooner, of 14 guns, and 71 men ; out 4 days from Guadaloupe, and had not made any capture. She had the temerity, after being decoyed within musket-shot, to return the fire of several broadsides with musketry, by which she suffered in 7 men killed and wounded.
I have the Honor to be, &c.
JOSEPH NOURSE