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Thursday, 4 June 2015

French privateer le General Perignon captured the British merchant ships George and Francis and Oniliphorus according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haarlemse courant dated 23 February 1805

An item reported that the French privateer le General Perignon of Saint Malo, France captured the British merchant ships George and Francis and Oniliphorus coming from Penzance, England, the Kite underway from Guernsey towards Bergen [Norway?] and the Aurora bound for Waterford, England. The first ship sunk.