[1] On 28 January 1797 Griffin anchored in the Yarmouth roads with her prize, the French privateer lugger Liberté.
After a three-and-a-half-hour-long chase, Griffin was able to capture Liberté at the entrance of the Ship-Wash, Yarmouth's sand banks.
[4] Griffin shared with the sloop Scorpion and the hired armed cutter Jane one month later, on 26 April, in the capture of the Adelaide, Bose, master.
[15] However, the tide was falling, darkness was coming on, and the vessels were in shoal water and in unfamiliar sands and currents.
Hancock sent Ormsby back with Admiral Mitchell providing cover in an attempt to recover or destroy Conflict, but they discovered that she was already high and dry on a sandbank, and in French hands.
[16] At high tide Hancock sent in boats to try to bring her off, or destroy her, with Admiral Mitchell and Griffin, reinforced for the purpose, providing support.
[15] Lieutenant Robert Forbes still commanded Griffin on 9 April 1805 when she captured Vrow Hendricke, Meltings, master.
[18] Rowena had imported sugar and coffee from Martinique, stopped at Newport to take on some American cargo, and then proceeded to Antwerp.
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