Come and ask, answer or inform.
Posted by Jon Miller on Friday 29th of May 2026 05:38
Plymouth, 5 March 1801: Letters from the Excellent, of 74 guns, the Hon Capt Stopford, dated the 24th instant, off Quiberon, state, that a flag of truce was sent into L’Orient, where intelligence was received, that the Lurcher cutter, of 12 guns, Lieut Forbes, supposed to have been wrecked, was taken and carried in there, by a French lugger privateer, of 16 guns. Lieut Forbes, his officers and men were well. [London Packet, 6 March 1801]
Posted by Tim Oakley on Thursday 17th of May 2012 19:50
taken by a French privateer