Spanish privateer lugger Nuestra Senora del Carmen captured by British gun-brig Attentive 17 October 1807

According to a letter dated 24 October 1807, written off Grenada by Robert Carr, commanding officer of the Attentive, the Spanish privateer lugger was 17 October 1807 captured between Tobago and Trinidad. She was commanded by don Thomaso Limaso, 'rowing 40 sweeps', armed with 2 carriage guns, swivels and small arms and with a crew of 63 men. Three of her crewmembers were wounded in the fight. She left Barcelona 15 days earlier and captured the sloop Harriot of St. Vincent.

This must be the gun-brig Attentive, armed with 12 guns, dimensions 80 x 23m 178 tons builders measurement, launched at Bools&Co., Bridport, England 18 September 1804 and which was broken up at Deptford on August 1812.

Sources

The Naval Chronicle vol. XIX January-June 1808, p. 169.

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.