She had been cruising to watch enemy vessels in Rochefort when she hit the Grande Blanche rock.

Lieutenant Lloyd always in his cabin — sea sick, I suppose, ... [Nile] has been no manner of use to Commodore Keats, nor will be to anyone, unless an officer who is a cutter sailor has the direction of her.

Little Simmons of Plymouth would do it well.Within 1807, Lieutenant Thomas Johnson, who had commanded the hired armed cutter Nile, replaced Lloyd.

[6] At about the same time, Nile also detained, and sent into Dartmouth Æolus, Angel, master, which had been sailing from Caediz to St Petersburg.

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