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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Spanish privateer captured by French gunboat la Grenade according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 28 July 1823

Badalona, 13 July. According to report of the Duke of Conegliano seemed the gunboat la Grenade cruising of the Catalonian coasts commanded by Ségrelier captured that day a Spanish privateer of the Constitutional Party after a chase of 7 hours. The captain and two sailors of the privateer were taken prisoner, the other crewmembers escaped to the shore into the mountains. The privateer had earlier captured a tartan which was now released.