London, 23 July. The corvette Griper (1) captain Lyon arrived 29 June at Stromness at the same time with the Snap (2) commanded by lieutenant Bullock. Both ships departed the 3rd towards the Hudson Strait and the coast of Terreneuve. The Griper was to stay during the winter at Repulse while his captain and company from there should start a discovery journey.
Yesterday arrived tidings from Gibraltar reporting that the gunboats and bomb galliots left towards Algiers and it was suspected that when they arrived the actions against that city were started.
Source
J.J. Colledge/Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. London, 2006.
Notes
1. Original a 12-gun brig launched at Richards, Hythe 14 July 1813, became in 1824 an Arctic 2-gun discovery sloop, since 1836 coastguard, target 1856 and broken up 1868, dimensions 85’0” x 22’0” and a builders’ measurement of 182 tons.
2. A 12-gun brig launched at Russell, Lyme Regis 25 July 1813, survey vessel 1823, powder hulk 1827 and sold 1832. Dimensions 84’0” x 22’5” and a builders’ measurement of 181 tons.
