Camilla (1800 ship)

Camilla was built in France in 1799 and was taken in prize by the British. Camillia first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1800 with Caitchern, master, Swane & Co., owners, and trade London–Barbados.[1] Captain Robert Hunter Caitchion acquired a letter of marque on 20 August 1800.[2]

History
Great Britain
Name:	Camilla
Owner:	Shane & Co.
Builder:	France[1]
Launched:	1799[1]
Acquired:	1800 by purchase of a prize
Captured:	Late 1800 or early 1801
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	285[1][2] (bm)
Complement:	38[2]
Armament:	18 × 9-pounder guns[2]

LL reported on 16 January 1801 that the French privateer Mouche had captured three vessels:[3][Note 1]

• Camilla, Calcheon, master, sailing from London to Barbados;
• Defiance, Pervis, master, Liverpool to Madeira; and
• Elizabeth, Liverpool to Demerara.

The entry for her in the 1801 LR carries the annotation "Captured".[5]

Notes

1. Mouche probably was a 14-gun privateer from Dunkirk commissioned in 1799. She did a first cruise under Pierre-François Lefebvre, from Calais, with 60 men and 14 guns, from 1799 to 1800. She made a second cruise in 1801 under a Captain A.-T. Warnier, from Calais, with 43 men and 14 guns. Her third cruise took place under Pierre-François Lefebvre with about 60 men and 14 guns from August 1801 to later the same year.[4]

Citations

1. LR (1800), "C" supple. pages.
2. "Letter of Marque, p.55 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
3. LL 16 January 1801, №4117.
4. Demerliac (2004), p. 227, n°1526.
5. LR (1801), Seq.№C31.

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)