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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Spanish privateer schooner Juliana captured by British schooners Gipsy and Gracieuse 27 December 1807

According to a letter dated 27 December 1807 written off Cape Antonio by D. Boyd, commanding officer of the Gracieuse, the Gipsy and the Gracieuse captured in the forenoon the Juliana. The latter was armed with 4-12pdr carronades and one long brass 18-pdr amidships and with 83 men of board of which 8 were killed and 6 wounded in the fight. She left 3 months earlier Trinidad, Cuba but didn't take any prize until now. 

This must be the schooner Gipsy, armed with 10-4pdr, 121 tons builders measurement, dimensions 69 x 20, purchased in December 1804 at Jamaica and there sold in 1808 and the schooner Gracieuse, armed with 14 guns, a former French privateer which was captured 21 October 1804 by the Blanche in the West Indies and which was mentioned until 1808.

Sources
The Naval Chronicle vol. XIX January-June 1808, p. 255.
J.J. Colledge/B. Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present. London, 2006.