Hired armed cutter Duke of York

History
Name: Duke of York
Commissioned: 23 June 1803
Decommissioned: 24 September 1810
General characteristics [1]
Type: Cutter
Tons burthen: 82 27⁄94 (bm)
Armament: 8 × 4-pounder guns

His Majesty's hired armed cutter Duke of York served the British Royal Navy from 23 June 1803 to 24 September 1810.

In July 1803 she sent into Portsmouth the American vessel Eagle, from New York bound for Amsterdam,[2] and Galatea, which had been sailing from Bordeaux to Bremen.[3] In August she sent in Young Jane, from Roxborough for France.[2] The next month Duke of York sent Syren, Desrege, master, into Falmouth. Syren had been sailing from Barcelona to Guernsey.[4]

In 1807 Duke of York was under the command of Lieutenant A. Mott. On 15 October, under the command of Lieutenant J. Forbes and while in company with the revenue cutters Fox and Seagull, she captured the French privateer Friedland. (Prize money was due to be paid in 1809.)[5]

In November 1808 she was reported under the command of Lieutenant G.V. Crosbe, with a convoy to the Downs. In March 1810 she sent Hanna, Bantzen, master, sailing from Trequeir, into Weymouth.[6]

In 1811 she is reported under the command of Lieutenant T. Banks in Guernsey, per Steel's Navy List. This is after she was reported returned to her owners, but another source still has her listed as under commission under Lieutenant Banks as late as 1813-14.[7]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. ↑ Winfield (2008), p.391.
  2. 1 2 The Naval chronicle, Vol. 10, p.173.
  3. ↑ Lloyd's List, no. 4368, accessed 8 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Lloyd's List, n.4387, - accessed 8 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "No. 16309". The London Gazette. 24 October 1809. p. 1693.
  6. ↑ Lloyd's List, no.4445, - accessed 8 May 2016.
  7. ↑ The Gentleman and Citizen's Almanack ... for the Year of Our Lord ..., (1814), p.137.

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1. 
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