At least two vessels known as His Majesty's hired armed lugger Nile served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
On 12 January 1800 Nile was under the command of her master, Stephen Butcher (or Bucher), Lieutenant Whitehead being ill on shore, when she captured the French privateer lugger Moderé.
Captain Baker, of Nemesis took Moderé in charge and took her, as well as another captured privateer, Renard, and a recaptured brig, and took them into the Downs.
Before leaving, Baker sent Nile to watch the port of Calais to try and intercept some other privateer luggers known to be out, and any captured British ships.
[4] At some point in early 1800, Nile and the hired armed cutter Earl Spencer recaptured Molly, which was in ballast.
[10] On 25 July 1800 Nemesis was part of a squadron that also included Terpsichore, Prevoyante, Arrow, and Nile, when it encountered the Danish frigate HDMS Freja, which was escorting a convoy of two ships, two brigs and two galliots.
[16] She may have been the lugger Nile of 174 tons, fourteen 12-pounder guns, and 55 men under the command of John Blake, that received a letter of marque on 21 July 1803.
Though the cutter Frisk and Nile stayed out of the fight and suffered no casualties,[20] as per regulations they shared in the proceeds for the capture of the Spanish ships Firme and San Rafael.
[22][23] On 2 May 1806 Nile was in company with two Jersey privateers, the Success and the Phoenix, when they captured the Spanish brig Santa Alodias, or Alvalia.
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