Action near Etaples, 31st October 1803

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Action near Etaples

31st October 1803
Part of : The French Revolutionary Wars (1793 - 1802)
Previous action : Bombardment of Calais 27.9.1803
Next action : Capture of the Albion 3.11.1803 - 4.11.1803
 

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

 
British Vessels,
Robert HoneymanBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1790-1847
Ship NameCommanderNotes
Leda (38) 1800-1808
British 38 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
Robert HoneymanBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1790-1847
,
Robert HoneymanBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1790-1847
Fleet Flagship
Lark (16) 1794-1809
British 16 Gun
Unrated Sloop
John TowerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1797-1815
Harpy (16) 1796-1817
British 16 Gun
Unrated Sloop
Edmund HeywoodBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1797-1813
Admiral Mitchell (12) 1803-1805
British 12 Gun
Hired Schooner
 5 wounded
 

République Française

 
French Vessels
Ship NameCommanderNotes
 

Notes on Action


DescriptionTRN5
On October 31st 1803, while working in towards the shore near Etaples, Captain Honyman [in the Leda], who had with him the sloops Lark and Harpy, saw a gun-brig and six schooners and sloops coming out of port and making for Boulogne. He ordered the Lark and Harpy to chase; but ere they could get up with the enemy, the hired cutter Admiral Mitchell, 12, Lieutenant Alexander Shippard, being already off Boulogne, intervened to such good effect that, although she had to contend with a land battery at Le Portel as well as with the vessels, she succeeded, after an engagement of two hours and a half, in driving ashore the gun-brig and one of the sloops. The Admiral Mitchell was a good deal cut about aloft, had a carronade dismounted, and had several shot in her hull; but she had only five men wounded.
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