HMS Camilla (1776)

[1] There she captured the privateer schooner Independence, John Gill, Master, of six carriage guns, eight swivels, and 50 men.

[2] On 23 January 1777, 12 miles (19 km) north of Charlestown, South Carolina, Camilla, under Captain Charles Phipps, captured the American sloop Fanny, which was heading to that port from Cap-Français, Hispaniola, with a cargo of molasses.

On 6 April she captured the brig Willing Maid, bound from St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and salt.

On 11 April 1777, Camilla was patrolling with the 44-gun frigate Roebuck near the mouth of the Delaware River, just north of the Cape Henlopen lighthouse, when they came upon the American merchantman Morris.

[5] On 21 April, she captured Perfect, Etienne Codnet, Master, bound from Cape Nichola, Hispaniola, with a cargo of molasses.

[5] She also captured Fonbonne, W. De Gallet, master, and W. Galley, owner, which was sailing from Cap-Français to Miquelon with a cargo of wine and molasses.

On 15 November she captured the sloop Admiral Montague,[8] sailing from Hispaniola to Rhode Island with a cargo of molasses and coffee.

[2] Lastly, on 14 March 1778, Camilla captured Polly, William Thompson, master, which was sailing to Surinam in ballast.

[14] In December Camilla sailed from New York to Charleston, South Carolina, with Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot's squadron.

[15] On 30 September, Camilla participated in the capture of the brigs Wasp, Potomack, and Portsmouth Hero, and the schooners Providence, Fanny and Betsey.

[1] Commander John Hutt of Trimmer received promotion to post captain and then in March 1783 recommissioned Camilla.

[1] In September 1790, Camilla was reported to have brought the Duke of Sudermania from Finland to the Swedish Royal Court at Drottningholm Palace.

On 15 February 1796 Camilla ran down and sank the merchant vessel Unity, of Hull, off the Goodwin Sands.

[21] Camilla shared with Diamond, Syren, Magicienne, and Childers in the proceeds of the capture on 10 April 1796 of Smuka Piga.

[22] Then Camilla, Aquilon, Diamond, Minerva, Syren, Magicienne, and Childers shared in the capture on 29 April of Mary.

[23] On 24 December Melampus, Latona, Camilla and the hired armed cutter Grand Falconer, shared in the capture of Esperance.

The next month, on 19 April, Diamond, Minerva, Cynthia, Grand Falconer, and Camilla captured the American ship Favourite, which was carrying a cargo of flour.

[25] When Robert Larkan took command of Camilla in September 1797, he brought with him Richard Spencer, who would go on to be knighted, and become Government Resident in Albany, Western Australia.

[27] On 4 May 1799, after a three-week voyage from Philadelphia, Camilla arrived at Cap-Français, Haiti, with the British General, Thomas Maitland on board.

During the evening of 29 January 1800, off Le Havre, Camilla captured the French privateer lugger Vigoureaux (or Vigoreaux).

Though the storm scattered the convoy, Camilla arrived in Portsmouth, having found and escorted six vessels to Weymouth and Poole.

[38] In 1825 the crews of Ulysses, Cerberus, Circe, and Camilla shared in the prize money arising out of the island's surrender.

The master claimed that he was sailing toward Holland only to avoid "the Lemon and Oar", a dangerous reef in the North Sea.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Lying at Sheerness, Camilla, of 433 tons", for sale on 13 April 1831.

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Recruiting poster from 1778 for Camilla
Generals Thomas Maitland and Toussaint Louverture meet to discuss a secret treaty, unknown artist, c.1800