Lieutenant Argles skillful maneuvered Nile, as the first British vessel up, and kept the corvette from the north shore.
[3] The hired armed cutter Suworow then towed in four boats with Lieutenant Hennah of Captain and a cutting-out party of seamen and marines.
[6] This was the Swedish brig Assistansen, Alex Stark, master, that had been sailing from Bayonne to Stockholm with a cargo of rosin and that Nile brought into Plymouth on 22 October.
[9] On 7 December, Nile discovered a convoy of 15 or 16 small vessels coming round the point of Croisic near the mouth of the river Vilaine in Quiberon Bay.
[11] Earlier during this cruise, Lieutenant Argles and Nile drove on shore a cutter of sixteen 12-pounders and a lugger of twelve 9-pounders.
At high tide the French were able to recover the two vessels, though fire from Nile had damaged them badly, and take them into Morbihan.
Newton believed that the French cutter had tried to disable Nile's rigging so that it could come up with and take her by boarding.
[13] Nile shared with Confiance, Stork, and the hired armed cutter Flirt in the proceeds of the capture of San Pedro D'Alcantare.
A musket shot killed Newton and the fire from shore batteries was so intense that the boats withdrew, giving up their attempt.
[17] In August the privateer Success, of Jersey, and the cutter Nile, of Hastings, captured Union, Pancen, master.
The commanding general, Lord Forbes, was away at Canterbury and the sentinels would not permit the Fencibles to proceed without his permission.
The Times quoted him as saying: My brave commander is gone on another station, but I expect orders to sail very soon, when be assured the cutter shall not disgrace her nameThe Times went on to comment: The Nile is manned by a very brave set, who although they may not have particularly attended to the revenue of the country, would not suffer her honour to be tarnished; and when they have smuggled spirits to quaff the king's health would draw their swords and protect him with their lives.A few months later Nile captured the American brig Truxton on 20 April.
[28][a] Then she captured the French chasse maree Elizabeth 30 June and the sloop Susannah Margaretta on 14 July.