Le Carrère

Posted by Jon Miller on Saturday 30th of May 2026 05:06

La Pomone, Port Mahon, 2 August 1801: The Phoenix, Pearl, and ourselves, fell in with a French frigate and her convoy on the 3d instant; our superior sailing brought us up with the frigate first; and we engaged and took her before the other two frigates could get within gun-shot. She struck after a close action of half-an-hour. She is called La Carriere, a very fine frigate, almost new, mounts 44 guns, and carries 390 men. This frigate was bound for the Island of Elba, with battering cannon, powder, &c, for the French troops which are besieging Porto-Ferrajo. We had one of the marine officers, the boatswain, a quarter-master, and one seaman killed; the master and three seamen wounded, one of them since died in the hospital. We took 4 other prizes off Elba, one of them since retaken with Lieutenant Nagle and seven men on board; another foundered. Two of them are safe with us at Minorca. We lately engaged three batteries near Barcelona, for four hours, and drove part of a convoy on shore and destroyed them. Our first Lieutenant got blown up, but is since recovered. [London Courier, 12 October 1801]