Mutinous disaffection on a ship and naval actions
Reports describe a mutiny aboard the Printvess Charlotte East-Indiaman near the Cape of Good Hope. Eleven sailors were sent to the Sceptre, four held for strong guilt, with prior service in the Nore fleet. Decisions await by the naval commander, and future voyage plans with Dover Castle, Good Hope, and Walpole are noted.
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Cape of Good Hope
Charlotte
Sion SiBay
Redger
Nore
Parker
Dover Castle
Lord Clive
Good Hope
Walpole
England
Guernsey
Cherbourg
Venus
Newfoundland
Adm. Waldegrave
French privateer wrecked in gale near Plymouth
A 16 gun French privateer, claimed later to be Swedish, wrecked in Bigbury Bay with 140 crew. seven drowned and two missing. A boat accident between the Isle of Mount Edgecumbe left six women and two men drowned. A warship boat from Cowland Bay washed ashore. Channel Fleet under Sir Ash Gardner faced severe gales and could not progress west beyond the Lizard.
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Plymouth
Bigbury Bay
Sweden
Modbury
Hland
Mount Edgecumbe
Cawfand Bay
Channel
Atah Gardner
Torbay
Lizard
Naval events in Cowes and routes to Spithead
News from Cowes reports His Majesty's Ship Captain of 74 guns forced from Cavwland Bay by a violent gale, needing fresh cables from Sir P. Parker before proceeding to Spithead. Forty mutineers in irons aboard, eight executed last week at Plymouth, others to be tried at Portsmouth Yarmouth on November 5. Also arrives the Prince of Wales packet from Cuxhaven with mails and 35,000l in specie. a Hamburg bound ship foundered near Yarmouth with all saved. Prince Adolphus packet from Lisbon provides dispatches after 13 days at sea. Sixteen miles northeast of Yarmouth a foreign ship founder due to weather. amid Lisbon convoy news and reports of French fleet preparations and Ireland England quips on liberty.
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Cowes
Cavwland Bay
Aylmer
P. Parker
Spithead
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Yarmouth
Prince of Wales Packet
Cuxhaven
Hamburgh
South Carolina
Sir R. Strachan
East Indies
Lisbon
England
Letter from an Officer Aboard La Coquille After 9 Fatiguing Days
An officer aboard the French prize La Coquille recounts a harrowing 9 day voyage from Belfast on October 24 1798. After a fierce battle the ship leaked heavily and crewed by English and French sailors pumped and sailed to safety near Portpatrick. The exhausted crew endured gale after gale with 42 Felinathmen aboard and 14 French officers among the prisoners. The ship narrowly avoided a lee shore and weathered Mull of Galloway before anchoring, the officer noting no sleep or clean clothes for the entire ordeal.
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Belfast
Ireland
St. George’s Channel
Portpatrick
N. W
Galloway
Ireland News: Court Martial, Prize Actions, and Local Disturbances
The Clommell Court martial approved by the Lord Lieutenant finds Lieut Bowen guilty of desertion at Wexford and sentences dismissal. Reports detail prize actions with Magnanime and Robust against French ships Hoche and Canada, with Magnanime sustaining no casualties and 7 wounded. Dublin Privy Council grants prayer form after fleet successes, while a Belan incident recounts Boyne’s survival after rebels fired on him, leading to arrests.
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Dibblin
Clommell
Bowen
North Cork
Lord Kingsborough
Wexford
M. Jetty
Belfast
Ambuscade
Coquille
J.B. Warren
Afon
Magnanime
Robust
Dublin
Castle
Great Briain
Kildare
Boyne
Talbotstown
Providence
Durancé
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Ord Spencer
Daniels
Bellerophon
Edmund Ha
Leicestershire
Pochin
Yarmouth Hamburgh
Ingateston
Chelmsford
Ship News
Tay
Ereé
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