She had a brief career in which she took some minor prizes and engaged two enemy vessels in an inconclusive action. She was sold in December She left Dunkirk on 4 September and on 16 September she delivered the Irish rebel Napper Tandy , General Rae, and some seventy compatriots to the island of Arranmore , northwest of Donegal.
The rebels occupied the island of Rutland but discovered that the rebellion they were to join had failed. On the way Anacreon captured two British vessels, Langton , which the British recaptured the next day, and Tom , which Anacreon brought with her to Bergen. Langton was armed only with a swivel gun , which she fired before surrendering. The next day they encountered a British sloop of war. Blanchman ordered the prize crew he had put on board Langton to set fire to her; the one British crew member still on board Langton , a ship's boy, had hid the tinder and so the prize crew did not set the fire.
The French took Aurora into North Bergen. He described her as a brig of 15 guns and with a crew of men. He would hang on the flanks of convoys, pick of stragglers, and escape before the convoy's escorts could reach him. One month later he was again on the prowl. On the morning of 26 June , Champion sighted a brig taking possession of two merchant vessels. Champion immediately set out in pursuit; three days and two nights later she captured the privateer brig.
She had a complement of men under the command of Citizen Blankeman, though 74 of her complement were away in prizes that she had already taken on her then current cruise. Anacreon was commissioned under Lieutenant John Simpson in November Four Brothers was under the command of Citizen Charles Desobier and carried four 4-pounders, swivel guns , small arms, and a crew of She was one day out of Calais and had yet to take any prizes.
Kent sent her into Ramsgate. The smugglers lost two men killed and two wounded, and tubs of spirits that Anacreon seized and carried into Dover. Eugenie and Anacreon came as close as they could and rendered assistance. Anacreon was lying at Sheerness when she was put up for sale on 1 December By she may have returned to Dunkirk for fitting out again. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects.
