DescriptionTRN5 On the evening of September 29th, having learnt that six French vessels laden with shells for Peniscola lay in the harbour of Valencia, Captain John Strutt Peyton, of the Minstrel, 20, sent in his boats under Lieutenant George Thomas and Midshipmen William Lewis, B S - Oliver, and Charles Thomas Smith, to bring them out. Although the vessels were moored head and stern to the beach between two batteries, Thomas brought out four of them. He took a fifth, but a sudden squall drove her aground, and she was retaken with three of his men in her. His further loss amounted only to 1 man badly wounded.