HMS ''Malta'' was the Spanish 10-gun

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''Malta'', built and launched in the United States of America in 1797. The British captured her in 1800. After the

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captured the French ship-of-the-line ''Guillaume Tell'' and renamed her , the Admiralty renamed the schooner ''Gozo'' in December 1800 after the Maltese island of

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. ''Malta'' was one of six British warships in sight on 8 January 1801 when captured the French bombard ''St. Roche''. She was carrying wine, liqueurs, ironware, Delfth (''sic'') cloth, and various other merchandise from Marseilles to Alexandria. Then on 8 March the "Malta schooner", , and the gun-vessel protected the right flank during the landing of troops in

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. protected the left flank, together with the cutter and the gun-vessel . Because ''Gozo'' served in the fleet under Admiral Lord

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in the Egyptian campaign between 8 March and 2 September, she is listed amongst the vessels whose crews qualified for the NGSM with clasp "Egypt". On 9 June ''Gozo'' (misspelled as ''Gogo'') captured the chasse maree ''Trompeuse'', which was sailing to

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. ''Gozo'' was sold in 1804.

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