HMS Mosambique (1804)
| History | |
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 France
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| Name: | Mosambique |
| Launched: | 1798 |
| Captured: | 13 March 1804 |
 UK
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| Name: | HMS Mosambique |
| Acquired: | By capture 13 March 1804 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique" |
| Fate: | Sold 1810 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | schooner |
| Tonnage: | 112½ bm (by calculation) |
| Displacement: | 110 tons (French) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 20 ft 2 in (6.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 3 in (2.5 m) |
| Sail plan: | Schooner |
| Complement: | 50 (60 as privateer) |
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HMS Mosambique was the French privateer schooner Mosambique, built in 1798, and commissioned as a privateer in 1804. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1804 and took her into service. She served in the West Indies, engaging in several indecisive single-ship actions before she captured one French privateer. She was sold there in 1810.
Mosambique was built in 1798 and commissioned as a privateer in early 1804. She was cruising under the command of Captain Vallentes and provisioned for three months when captured.
On the morning of 13 March 1804, Fort Diamond, the tender to Diamond Rock, was under the command of Emerald's first lieutenant, Thomas Forest. Fort Diamond weathered the Pearl Rock to bear down on a French privateer schooner, Mosambique, which had anchored close to the shore under a battery at Ceron, outside the port of Saint-Pierre, Martinique. In cooperation with Emerald and Pandour, which sent two boats each to create a diversion, Fort Diamond ran alongside the schooner, running into her at a rate of about nine knots an hour. At her approach, the schooner's crew fired a broadside and discharged some small arms before all 50 or 60 crewmen jumped overboard and swam ashore. The impact of Fort Diamond's strike broke the chain that anchored the Mosambique to shore, and the boarding party cut two cables to free her. Fort Diamond's casualties amounted to two men wounded. Mosambique turned out to be armed with ten 18-pounder carronades, though she was pierced for 14 guns. She was from Guadeloupe and under the command of Citizen Vallentes. In April 1827 head-money was distributed for the capture.
The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Mosambique.
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