The Alban was under the command of Lieutenant Thøger Emil Rosenørn when Rifleman encountered her near the Shetland Islands.
[5] According to Danish sources, Rosenørn fought bravely and when he saw that defeat was inevitable, he hacked away rigging and created holes in the hull before he surrendered.
[8] On 9 March Rifleman was in company with Venus and shared in the proceeds of the capture the Danish sloop Anna Serina, J. Brodersoit, master.
[13] Two Sisters is almost surely Twende Sostre, which Riflemen captured on 1 December while in company with Snake.
[1] On 26 August 1814, a British squadron from Halifax moved to capture the Down East coastal town of Machias.
The expedition was under the overall command of Sir John Sherbrooke and Rear Admiral Edward Griffith Colpoys controlled the naval elements.
[24] En route, the squadron fell in with Rifleman and learned that the USS Adams, commanded by Captain Charles Morris, was undergoing repairs at Hampden, on the Penobscot River.
On the evening of 31 August, Sylph, Peruvian, and the transport Harmony, accompanied by a boat from Dragon, embarked marines, foot soldiers and a detachment from the Royal Artillery, to move up the Penobscot under the command of Captain Robert Barrie of Dragon.
[25] Their objective was Adams, of twenty-six 18-pounder guns, which had taken refuge some 27 miles up stream at Hampden, Maine.
[26] On 8 September, Bacchante, Rifleman, Tenedos, and Pictou captured the American schooner Fox at Machias, Maine.
The British took the opportunity to confiscate a quantity of meat that they loaded on to Fox before they sent her to Saint John, New Brunswick.
(Napier declined accepting a piece of plate with which Nova Scotian merchants had wished to acknowledge his care in the conduct of convoys between the port of Saint John, New Brunswick, and Castine, Maine.)
[1] On 11 May 1817, Rifleman captured a brigantine off Aux Cayes, whose crew reported that she had been the famous Charleston privateer schooner Saucy Jack.
Rifleman took the 18 prisoners on board, brought them to Kingston, Jamaica, and handed them over to the police as pirates.
Ambassador at the Porte, recommended Michell to the Admiralty for promotion to post-captain for his services to them in the Mediterranean.
Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Rifleman, brig, 387 tons burthen", lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 21 January 1836.
[32] 1st whaling voyage (1837–1841): Captain Henry William Davis sailed Rifleman from Britain on 24 October 1837, bound for New Zealand.
[32] 2nd whaling voyage (1841–1845): Rifleman left Britain on 13 October 1841, still under Davis's command, and bound for the Pacific Ocean.
The advertisement announcing the sale reported that she had been sheathed in yellow metal prior to her second whaling voyage.
[33] Rifleman first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR), in the supplementary (late) pages volume for 1845.
The fishing smack Catherine Mary offered her assistance, which Rifleman's master accepted.
Rifleman's cargo of tea, hemp, and tallow was valued at £16,000; she was also carrying a number of passengers.
The matter went to court where the judge awarded the plaintiffs £200 on the grounds that small claims against valuable cargoes should be supported to encourage salvage efforts.
3rd whaling voyage (1852–1856): Rifleman, under the command of J. Grossman, left Britain for Timor on 28 December 1852.