HMS Morgiana (1800)

On 30 November 1800 Thames captured Actif in the Bay of Biscay, 15 leagues from the Tower of Corduan, after a six-hour pursuit.

Morgiana brought with her duplicate dispatches concerning the evacuation of forces after the fall of Alexandria on 2 September, and General Moore as a passenger.

[5] Between 15 and 16 January 1802 a number of warships, under the command of Rear Admiral George Campbell in Temeraire, dropped down to St.

[6] On 7 February the following vessels departed St Helens with sealed orders, with the press believing they were bound for Jamaica: Temeraire, Formidable, Resolution, Vengeance, Orion, Majestic, Desiree, and Morgiana.

[1] At Portsmouth, Mr. Solomon Bostick, boatswain of Morgiana, was tried aboard Donegal for repeated neglect of duty.

The court martial board sentenced Bostick to be reprimanded for staying beyond his leave, and to be admonished not to absent himself from duty in future.

[9] On 10 January 1803 Morgiana sailed to join Autumn in assisting the salvage of the store ship Abundance, which had gone on shore on Sconce Point near the Needles while on her way to the Mediterranean.

[10] Morgiana returned on 2 February and sailed for Lymington on 14 March, bringing back seamen for the fleet the following day.

On 5 May the Admiralty ordered Morgiana, then at Portsmouth, prepared and provisioned for foreign service, believed to be the West Indies, and to sail immediately to Plymouth.

On 28 April, 1804 she arrived at Malta convoying 2 merchantmen from Trieste (placed here because the "fish ships" comment is undated).

Late on 21 May 1807, Commander William Raitt of Scout sent his boats and those of Morgiana in pursuit of several vessels spotted sailing past Cape Trafalgar with the aim of clearing the Straits under cover of darkness.

Raitt described his prize "a large Vessel, about Three Months old, and in my Opinion well calculated for the Gun Boat Service at Gibraltar.

"[22] Three days later, Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Commander in Chief for the Mediterranean, wrote in a letter to William Marsden that Scout, Morgiana, and Redwing had been employed "scouring the Gut of the Enemy".

[1] The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the "Morgiana Sloop, of 283 Tons" for sale at Chatham on 21 February 1811.