''Proserpine'' was launched at Amsterdam in 1801 as a 32-gun frigate. The
Royal Navy captured her in May 1804 at the capture of Surinam and took her into service as HMS ''Amsterdam''. She sailed to England where she became a guard and storeship at
Cork. She was sold in 1815.
Capture
The British captured
Surinam Surinam may refer to:
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from the Dutch on 5 May 1804. The Batavian flotilla that the British captured was under the command of naval Captain H. 0. Bloys Van Trestong, captain of ''Proserpine''. The other naval vessels were the corvette
''Pilades'',
the schooner ''George'' (10 guns), and seven gunboats.
Prize money in the amount of £32,000 was paid in March 1808 to the officers and crew of the Royal Navy vessels involved in the capture of the colony of Surinam.
Royal Navy
In December 1804, ''Amsterdam'' recaptured , of Liverpool, Lawson, master, that a French privateer had captured as ''Horatio'' was sailing from Africa to the West Indies with a cargo of slaves. ''Horatio'' was taken into Demerara, where she landed 114 slaves. The report in the ''
London Gazette
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'' gives the
slave ship's name as ''Lord Nelson''. A report in ''
Lloyd's List'' (''LL'') gave the vessel's name as ''Horatio'', and also mentioned that the privateer had removed 160 of her people. A later report revealed that the privateer had taken out 160 of her slaves, along with her crew, excepting the carpenter, boatswain, and one or two seamen.
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In May Captain Ferris was in command of ''Amsterdam'' and on 5 May she sailed from Antigua for England. She arrived at Spithead on 13 June and then went into Portsmouth Harbour. She was laid up in Ordinary
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there on 2 July. Her crew were distributed to and ''Royal William''.[
Between May and August 1806 ''Amsterdam'' underwent fitting as a storeship for Cork. Commander Alexander Innes commissioned her in May as a guardship at Cork. In June 1807 Commander Edward W. Hoare replaced Innes.
''Amsterdam'' shared with and the ship's tender ''Cecilia'' in the proceeds of the detention on 31 August 1807 of the Danish vessels ''Aurora'' and ''Brothers''.]
Fate
''Amsterdam'' was sold at Plymouth on 9 August 1815 for £1,150.
Notes
Citations
References
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*''Verhandelingen en Berigten Betrekkelijk het Zeewezen, Zeevaartkunde, de Hydrographie, de Koloniën'', (1852), Vol. 12.
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1801 ships
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