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Monday, 4 March 2019

Spanish privateer Lugger Vansigo captured by the British Royal Navy in 1807

Pierced for 14 guns, armed with 6-4pdr, 1 long brass 12 pdr, 55 men, captured by the armed brig Anne, J. M'Kenzie, Latitude 41° 41' North and 10° 30" West at noon 20 November 1087. Her capture was described in a letter written by M'Kenzie. The Vansigo left Ferrol 8 days earlier without taken any prizes. The lugger was recaptured in the morning of the 24th by Spanish gunboats the island of Terriffa North East by North. The Anne had on board just 30 men and 42 prisoners, while 9 of her men were on board of the lugger.

Sources
The spelling of the names is English so mighty not exactly correspond with the original Spanish spelling. The list published in the Naval Gazetteer was not complete, compared with the The Naval Chronicle
The Naval Gazetteer, published by J.W. Norris&Co., 1827, p. 529-530. Digitalized version.
The Naval Chronicle vol XVIII, July-December 1807, p. 227, 345-346, 432, 510 and 514-515. Digitalized version.