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L'Adelaide | 20615 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 6 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Nationality | Empire Français | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1813 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BWAS-1793 | |
| Category | Privateer | BWAS-1793 | |
| Ship Type | Unknown | BWAS-1793 | |
| Captured | 27.3.1813 | BWAS-1793 | |
Depart from Napoli
BGAdmiralty-Office, May 8, 1873.
Letter from Lieutenant William Knight (2}, commanding His Majesty's Hired Ketch Gleaner, to John Wilson Croker., Esq. dated at Plymouth, the 6th instant.
Sir, beg you will be pleased to inform their Lordships, that His Majesty's hired ketch under my command captured, on the 27th March, the French privateer Adelaide, of 6 guns and 46 men, 5 days from Naples, and had made no capture. While lying nearly becalmed, Cape St. Vito (Sicily) bearing E. S. E. 6 leagues, she sweeped towards us and attacked His Majesty's Ketch.
I have the honour to be, Sic.
W. KNIGHT (2), Lieutenant