The second had a brief, but highly productive, career that later led to her crew qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal.
One account describes this vessel as the hired brig Pasley, of 204 83⁄94 tons burthen (bm), and armed with two 6-pounder bow chasers and twelve 12-pounder carronades.
(Had Pasley not had to rush to carry the dispatches to Gibraltar, she would have been modified at Plymouth to enable the guns to be moved to the stern when necessary.
Nevin wrote from Algeciras on 10 December briefly describing the action and reporting that he and his wounded men were recovering rapidly.
Because Suworow had previously sent in four Danish vessels, Suwarrow had only 16 men and boys on board when she chased and captured Jeune Annette.
[11] The Naval Chronicle reported on 24 April "That beautiful brig La Jeune Annette, now Paisley, of sixteen six-pounders, is commissioned, and the command given to Lieutenant W. Wooldridge, late of the Centaur.
"[12] Other records describe the vessel as the cutter Sir Thomas Pasley, of 16 cannons (two 12-pounder chase guns and fourteen 12-pounder carronades), and 162 74⁄94 tons (bm).
This record states that Sir Thomas Pasley served the Royal Navy as a hired vessel from 20 May to 6 March 1802.
When the fog lifted, he sighted the cutter some distance to leeward, but being under orders to deliver the dispatches immediately, declined to resume the chase.
[19] In early July Saumarez sent Pasley to try to find Rear-admiral Sir John Borlase Warren.
[20] Then on 21 July Pasley was on her way back to Menorca when at 7am, six or seven leagues south west of the island of Carbera, she encountered a Spanish naval xebec of 22 guns.
An engagement that lasted an hour and a half developed in which Pasley lost one man killed and two wounded.
of Cape de Gat when she encountered a Spanish polacca that commenced to give chase, and drew close.
A battle ensued that lasted about an hour when Wooldridge, realizing that most of Pasley's rigging had been shot away, decided that her only hope was to run into the polacca and board her.
The next mention of a vessel by that name is a report in December in Lloyd's List that the Sir Thomas Pasley, Neale, master, had run on shore at the island of Majorca while on a voyage from Newfoundland to Leghorn.
[25] Another report had the brig Sir Thomas Pasley driven ashore and wrecked at Menorca while on a voyage from Newfoundland to Naples, Kingdom of Sicily.
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