On 31 May, Unicorn, Scipio and Latona shared in the capture of the Dutch schooner Mary, Captain Pierce, master.

[6] Then Unicorn parted company with the rest of the squadron and after a chase of 13 hours captured the Dutch brig Komeet (or Comet), which was under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Mynheer Claris.

She was sailing from the Cape of Good Hope to the Texel and was provisioned with water and food for 110 men for a nine-month cruise.

[8] On 10 April 1796, Unicorn recaptured the brig Thames while in company with Penguin and the hired armed cutter Fox.

[5] On 7 June, Unicorn and Santa Margarita captured a large ship flying Swedish colours and carrying Dutch goods from Surinam, which turned out to be the Gustavus Adolphus.

[9] The commander of the prize crew, a lieutenant from Unicorn, advised Admiral Sir Robert Kingsmill, commander in chief of the Cork station, that when he had last seen Unicorn and Santa Margarita they were chasing three French vessels, the frigates Tamise and Tribune, and the corvette Legere.

[11] Before Unicorn could bring Tribune to close action the two vessels engaged in a ten-hour-long running fight.

Santa Margarita captured Tamise in an action that would ultimately yield her crew a clasp to the NGSM.

[13] In December, Unicorn was one of the few British ships able to respond to the French effort to invade Ireland during the Expédition d'Irlande.

On 7 January 1797, Unicorn was able to capture the troopship Ville de Lorient with Doris and Druid and pursue the French flagship in the closing days of the campaign.

Eleven days later Unicorn, Doris and Druid captured the privateer Eclair, of 18 guns and a crew of 120 men, in the Channel.

On 9 June 1799 Unicorn and the hired armed cutter Constitution captured the French brig St.

[17] On 10 June, two of Unicorn's boats, together with two each from Renown, Fisgard and Defence, all of Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, captured the gunboat Nochette, two other armed vessels, and eight transports carrying supplies for the fleet at Brest.

[18] Unicorn was short of water so Admiral St. Vincent ordered her to escort the prizes back to Plymouth and then immediately return to her station.

Huzelle was low on provision with the result that a five-year-old child died while she was in Plymouth Sound; as she anchored at Catwater, M.P.

Among Huzelle's passengers were a Colonel Molonson of Invalids, and a naturalist, M. Burnelle, with a cabinet of curiosities for the French National Museum at Paris.

On 14 August Wemyss wrote to Admiral W. Cornwallis stating that he had only been able to capture one chasse-marée, of 40 tons, which was carrying a cargo of lime.

[3] An assignment to escort a convoy of merchantmen from Sheerness to Riga was abandoned in mid-June due to poor weather.

[28] On 23 June she captured the Dutch fishing vessel Jonge Johannes,[29] then on 17 September the neutral ship Catharina Louisa, which the High Court of Admiralty later restored to her owners.

After rowing for many hours, and despite finally facing cannon and small arms fire, the British captured the privateer without taking any casualties.

[32] On 15 October Unicorn captured the Spanish ship Notre Dame de la Carmen, which was on her way from Havana to Cadiz with a cargo of cocoa.

[43] On 30 March 1813 the frigate Stag and Unicorn captured the French privateer Miquelonnaise, of St Malo.

On this cruise she had been out four days from Quimper and had taken the small brig Alexander, which had been carrying a cargo of tin and iron from London to Lisbon.

[3] While under the command of Kerr, Salt, or Pechell, Unicorn sent in her boats to cut out a large brig sheltering under the batteries at Belle Île.

Unicorn also participated in the support of Spanish forces in the north of Spain, in the blockade of the Texel, and in patrols off the coast of Norway.

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