Sir William Rule designed her to develop a frigate to replace the 44-gun ships that carried their armament on two decks.

[3] Acasta and Ceres captured St Mary de Louvaine, which was carrying two guns and had a crew of 25 men.

[4] In April 1827, i.e., some 29 years later, head money was payable for all four French "vessels of war": San Josef de Victoire, Mutine, Va Tout and Marie.

Between May and July, Acasta, in company with Acquilon and Squirrel, captured a Danish schooner that had been sailing from Jacquemel to St. Thomas with a cargo of coffee and dollars.

[9] Acasta also captured a polacca of 130 tons and two guns, which was sailing from St. Juan, Puerto Rico, to La Vera Cruz carrying brandy, wine and dry goods.

[9] Acasta's boats took the French schooner the Aimable Eustatie, of 20 tons, one gun and 16 men, which was carrying 268 bags of coffee from Cape Francois to St.

These were: Around the middle of 1800, Acasta was in company with Amphion when they captured a Spanish brig laden with Tortula (Tortola) sugar, logwood, cotton, cochineal, etc.

[15] Acasta was in company with Queen, Brunswick, and Aquilon when they took the Spanish schooner San Pablos del Mundo and her cargo of jerk beef.

[15] Lastly, Acasta and Queen took the Spanish schooner General Massaredo, which had been sailing from Havana to Campeche with dry goods.

[15] Prize money for the Diana, Fortuna, Les Animas, and the cochineal taken in the Aimable Maria between May and June 1801 was due in July 1802.

[1] In May Acasta picked up Admiral the Honourable William Cornwallis in Lymington and took him to Torbay where he was to take command of the Channel Fleet.

When she arrived at Jamaica, Sir John Duckworth ordered Wood to assume command of Hercule, which was then at sea and which, on its return, would not be available.

However, even though Hercule was not in fact available, Duckworth refused to rescind his appointment of Captain Richard Dunn,[1] with the result that Wood returned to England as a passenger in his own ship.

On his return to England, Wood demanded a court martial of Duckworth on charges, inter alia, of tyranny and oppression.

To prevent the capture of their vessels, the captains of the flagship, Impérial, and the Diomède, drove them on shore between Nizao and Point Catalan, their hulls broadside to the beach and their bottoms stove in by the reefs.

Boarding unopposed, the boat parties removed the remaining French crewmen as prisoners and set both ships on fire.

[36][b] Lastly, in 1847 the Admiralty awarded the surviving claimants from the action the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "St.

Beaver decided instead to take his flotilla into the Cul de Sac, with the warships leading to protect the landing.

[44] On 24 February the French called for a truce after a magazine in the fort blew up as a result of the British artillery bombardment.

[45] In April, Cochrane was blockading a French squadron consisting of three ships of the line and two frigates that had taken shelter in the Îles des Saintes near Guadeloupe.

[46] Beckwith decided to send troops under General Maitland to take the islands and the ships, or at least force them out to sea.

By 10 o'clock on the morning of 14 April the ships were in place and Acasta led Gloire, Narcissus, Circe and Intrepid into the channel and anchored opposite the Bois Joly bay.

[e] Next, Acasta shared in the prize money for French ship D'Hautpoul, which Pompée, Recruit and Neptune had captured on 17 April 1809.

[f] Acasta then returned to England and was under repair in Plymouth in 1811, with Captain Alexander Robert Kerr taking over command in April 1811.

[55] Further success followed on 3 November when Acasta, Maidstone, Aeolus and Childers captured the privateer schooner Snapper of Philadelphia.

[55][j] On 10 December Acasta, Poictiers and Maidstone captured the letter of marque brig Herald, bound from Bordeaux to Baltimore.

[n] On 6 September, Captain Oliver of Valiant sent Acasta and Atalante up Long Island Sound "to endeavour to annoy the enemy".

[68] On 2 July 1814, Acasta was among the vessels sharing in the capture of the schooner Little Tom and her cargo of lumber, plank, and shingles.

[o] On 28 December 1814, Acasta, Leander and Newcastle captured the notorious American privateer Prince de Neufchatel.

When Collier had to interrupt his surveillance in order to take Leander to Halifax to resupply, he left Acasta and Newcastle off the port.