Attack on the Amazone, 24th March 1811

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Attack on the Amazone

24th March 1811
Part of : The French Revolutionary Wars (1793 - 1802)
Previous action : Action of 1808-04-22 24.4.1808
 

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

 
Ship NameCommanderNotes
Berwick (74) 1809-1821
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
James MacnamaraBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1788-1814
Amelia (38) 1796-1816
British 38 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
Frederick Paul IrbyBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1797-1813
 1 killed, 1 wounded
Niobe (38) 1800-1816
British 38 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
John Wentworth LoringBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1794-1837
Goshawk (16) 1806-1813
British 16 Gun
Unrated Sloop
James LilburneBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1798-1812
Hawk (16) 1806-1814
British 16 Gun
Unrated Sloop
Henry BourchierBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1797-1846
 

Empire Français

 
Ship NameCommanderNotes
L'Amazone (40) 1807-1811
French 40 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
B. L. RousseauFrench
Naval Sailor
 Sunk
 

Notes on Action


DescriptionTRN4
... in November, 1810, the Amazone, 40, escaped from the road of St. Vaast to Le Havre. In the course of the following months she made several attempts to proceed thence to Cherbourg; and, early on March 24th, 1811, she was observed in the course of one of these by the Berwick, 74, Captain James Macnamara. The frigate was chased, and driven into a rocky bay near Barfleur lighthouse, where, in anchoring, she lost her rudder. Macnamara summoned to his aid, or was presently joined by, the Amelia, 38, Captain the Hon. Frederick Paul Irby, Goshawk, 16, Commander James Lilburn, Hawk, 16, Commander Henry Bourchier, and Niobe, 38, Captain John Wentworth Loring; and the three largest ships of the squadron then stood in as close as possible to the Frenchman, firing at her as they wore, but doing her little damage, and themselves suffering a good deal aloft, besides having 1 killed and 1 wounded in the Amelia. Macnamara, however, was about to renew the attack on the 25th, when he discovered that Captain B. L. Rousseau had saved him the trouble by burning his frigate.
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