Career
Patent first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1803. [1]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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| 1803 | R.Barugh | Gillespie | Lynn | LR |
| 1804 | R.Barugh | Gillespie | Lynn
New Providence | LR |
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On 29 December 1806 General Perpignon [sic] captured Patent, Barugh, master, at 49°48′N8°30′W / 49.800°N 8.500°W / 49.800; -8.500 as Patent was on her way from New Providence to London. However the gun-brig HMS Sharp Shooter and the hired armed cutter Britannia recaptured Patent and sent her into Plymouth. [2]
On 5 April 1808 Patent was among a handful of vessels in Margate Roads that lost their cables and anchors. Patent was on her way from Liverpool to London.
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source |
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| 1808 | R.Barugh
Anderson | Gillespie | London–New Providence
London–Jamaica | LR |
| 1810 | Anderson
G.Smale | Gillespie | London–New Providence
London–Pensacola | LR |
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In January or February 1812 the French captured Patent, Gillespie, master. Diana recaptured Patent on 4 February. [3] Patent arrived at Plymouth on 6 February. [4] A fuller account from Plymouth dated 11 February reports that a French privateer had captured Patent, Smale late master, as she was returning from New Providence with logwood. The privateer took Smale and 10 of his crew off. Shortly thereafter Diana encountered Patent and chased her for three days before the French prize crew ran her aground on the French coast at low tide. At high tide the sailors from Diana were able to use casks to refloat Patent and work her out with little damage. [5] [lower-alpha 1]
Between 21 February 1812 and 17 May, a three-vessel French squadron consisting of the frigates Ariane and Andromaque, and the brig Mameluck engaged in commerce raiding in the Atlantic. They captured numerous British and American vessels and burnt them all, except for Patent, M'Master, master, and Woodrup, Sims, master. They made a cartel of Patent, putting their British prisoners aboard her; she arrived at Plymouth on 24 May. The French put their American prisoners on Woodrop, which they sent to America. [7] Returning to Lorient, the squadron met the British 74-gun ship-of-the-line HMS Northumberland, Captain Henry Hotham. In the ensuing action of 22 May 1812, the two frigates ran aground trying to escape their much stronger opponent. Their crews set their frigates afire to prevent the frigates's capture.
On 14 September, Patent was near Bermuda when her mate and a boat crew took possession of Hannibal, Hunt, master, which was sailing to America from Java. Hannibal was carrying a cargo of tea and other things, and $500,000. Patent arrived at Portsmouth from Jamaica, but Hannibal made her escape. Patent detained and brought into Portsmouth the supercargo, mate, and boat crew from Hannibal that had come aboard Patent for provisions. [8]
| Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
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| 1813 | M.Master
J.Rewells | Gillespie | Falmouth–West Indies | LR; damages repaired 1812 |
| 1814 | J.Rewells | Brown & Co. | London transport | LR; damages repaired 1812 |
| 1816 | J.Rewells
Barongh | Brown & Co. | London transport | LR; damages repaired 1812 & good repair 1813 |
| 1818 | R.Ward | R.Harrison | Hull–New York | LR; good repair 1817 |
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