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Launched : 1796 ; Disposal date or year : 1834 6 Jan 1799,
Harwich, arrived from the Downs, and remains. 30 Nov 1799, with
the Vigilant hired cutter in company, captured the French
privateer Barras, 14 guns, 57 men, of Dunkirk, out 4 days from
Ostend, off the Texel. May 1805 Bahamas 25 Apr 1806 the incident
which brought about the case involving the American coasting-
sloop Richard, Jesse Pierce, master, and the death of his
brother John Pierce. 8-10 Feb 1809 Asp, Supérieure, Latona,
Horatio, and Driver, cruising to the southward of the Virgin
islands, captured the French 40-gun frigate Junon, which was
taken to Halifax, repaired, and commissioned under the same name
in the British navy. Sierra Leone 20 Jun 1822 Is reported to
have arrived from Portsmouth. 19 Aug 1822, detained in lat. 3°
0' N. long. 6° 35' E., the Spanish slave vessel Josefa, which
was sent for adjudication to the British and Spanish Mixed Court
of Justice, Sierra Leone, and senten