HMS ''Elizabeth'' was a Spanish dispatch cutter named ''Elizabet'' that
HMS ''Bacchante'' captured off Havana in 1805. The British
Royal Navy
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took her into service under her existing name. She disappeared in 1807, believed foundered without a trace.
Capture
On 3 April 1805, ''Bacchante'' captured the Spanish naval cutter or schooner ''Elizabeth'' of ten guns and 47 men under the command of Don Josef Fer Fexegron. ''Elizabeth'' had been carrying dispatches from the Spanish governor of
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, but had thrown these overboard before her capture.
HMS, and loss
The Royal Navy commissioned ''Elizabeth'' in 1806 under Lieutenant John Sedley. She disappeared c. September 1807 without a trace, presumed to have foundered with all hands.
See also
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List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
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Notes
Citations
References
*Gilly, William O.S. (1864) ''Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy Between 1793 and 1857 Compiled Principally from Official Documents in the Admiralty''. (Longman, Green).
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