ne peux pas assurer que je l'obtiendrai." It is hardly necessary to say that he did not secure permission. The prize, San Juan Baptista, had already fallen into the hands of the Menelaus, on February 14th, off Lorient."

An exceedingly painful incident occurred in March. On the 12th, near the mouth of the Bay of Biscay, the Primrose, 18, Commander Charles George Rodney Phillott, and the Falmouth packet, Duke of Marlborough, John Bull, master, bound for Lisbon, mistook one another for enemies. The error was facilitated by the smallness of the flags supplied to the packet, by the end-on position of the two vessels when the Duke of Marlborough hoisted the private signal, and by the rather slovenly manner in which the packet was sailed when first sighted. The Primrose fired the first shot at 6.50 P.M.; but nothing approaching to an engagement began until 7.55, ere which time the packet had attempted to make the private night signal, though it is probable that she did not make it correctly. At 8.15, a close action commenced, the Primrose's repeated hails not having been answered. Not until Phillott had hailed an obviously beaten ship, did the unfortunate truth come out. The packet had 2 passengers killed and 9 or 10 men wounded, and was in an almost sinking state. The Primrose had 1 man killed and 14 people (2 fatally) wounded, including Master Andrew Leech, and Master's Mate Peter Belches.2

The brief revival of the war with France in 1815 witnessed no naval events of any importance other than those which have been described in the previous chapter.

1 James, vi. 279; Nav. Chron., xxxi. 423.

2 James, vi. 278; Mins. of C. of Inq. Mr. Belches, born 1796, retired with the rank of com. in 1877, and survived until 1890.

다

IRON CARRIAGE FOR A 24-pr., ca. 1820.
The first iron gun-carriage used in the Navy. (From Ch. Dupin.)

BRITISH LOSSES, 1803-1815.

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APPENDIX TO CHAPTERS XXXIX., XL., AND XLI.

LOSSES OF THE BELLIGERENT POWERS, 1803-15.

NOTE. As most of the events referred to in the following tables occurred in the course of the campaigns which have been described in the present volume, the tables are inserted here. It should be noted, however, that they include the captures and losses during the American War of 1812–15, a campaign which still remains to be dealt with.

A.-LIST OF H.M. SHIPS TAKEN, DESTROYED, BURNT, FOUNDERED OR WRECKED DURING THE YEARS 1803-1815.

Remarks.

Wrecked near Jersey.

Wrecked on Cape St. Vincent.

Grounded and taken near Cherbourg.
Wrecked off the Texel.

Lieut. Robert Tucker Detained by the Dutch at Curaçoa.

Robert Merrick

{Fowler.

36 {

Capt. Charles Feilding (2).
Frederick Cottrell.

Edward Leveson

Gower.

1803

Mar. 26
May 31

Déterminée.
Resistance

36

{

July 2

Minerve.

38

21

Seine.

38

(actg. Com.).

Com. William Venour.*

Redbridge, sch

12

Lieut. George Lempriere.

Run down in the Atlantic.
Taken by French off Toulon.

Wrecked in the S. Pacific.

Wrecked on the Lemon and Ower.
Wrecked off Cape François.

Wrecked and burnt near La Hougue.

Foundered off the Weser.

Wrecked in Cork Harbour.

(Grounded and burut by French at Chausey.

Foundered in the Atlantic.

Wrecked near Mazari, Sicily.

(Supposed foundered in N. Sea. All lost.

Wrecked in Cawsand Bay.

Wrecked on the Saintes, B. of Biscay.
Wrecked on Berry Head.

Wrecked near Gibraltar.

(Taken by French privateer Blonde, {Atlantic.

(Wrecked near the Pierres Noires,

Brest.

John William Tay-} Wrecked on coast of Portugal.

36 { for Dixon.

24 Wolverine

99

25 Magnificent.

8

16

Hindostan, storeship

Com. John Le Gros.

(Lieut. William Thomas)
Martin Leake.*

Com. John Wesley Wright.

Accidentally burnt, Rosas Bay.

Taken by a French privateer, Medit.

(Taken by French gunboats, Quiberon Bay.

(Taken by priv. Grand Décidé, 22,
W. Indies.

Taken by priv. Dame Ambert, 16, off
Georgia.

Wrecked near the Texel.

Re

Wrecked off Roundham Head, Torbay.
Wrecked near Sandown Castle.

Wrecked on coast of Portugal.

Wrecked on Atwood Key, W. Indies.
Lost off the Irish coast.

Run down by the Aigle, Channel.
Wrecked near Calais.

Wrecked on Margate Sands.
Driven ashore in the W. Indies.
Wrecked in Grouville Bay, Jersey.

Grounded and taken near Calais.
Wrecked near Trincomale.
Wrecked in Quiberon Bay.
Wrecked in Cadiz Bay.

(Taken by the Hortense and Incor-
ruptible, Mediterranean.

Taken by the Hortense and Incorruptible, Mediterranean.

Taken by a French squadron, Mediter

ranean.

32 Capt. Sir Robert Laurie,) (Taken by the Ville de Milan, North

America.

Wrecked off Dieppe.
Foundered in the Atlantic.

Capt. William Ferris.
Lieut. Joshua Kneeshaw.

Charles Cutts Ormsby.

Com. Francis Newcombe.

Capt. Hon. John Colville.
John Hunter.

Lieut. Samuel Bassan.

Com. Henry Vaughan.

Lieut. (actg.) Francis Foundered near Jamaica.