HMS Patriot (1808)
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| Name: | HMS Patriot |
| Acquired: | 1808 by purchase |
| Fate: | Sold 1815 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Schuyt |
| Tons burthen: | 81 bm or 49 bm |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Armament: | 10 guns |
HMS Patriot was a Dutch schuyt that the Royal Navy captured in 1808 and took into service. She captured several enemy vessels before she was converted to a water vessel in 1813. The Admiralty sold her in 1815.
In 1809 Patriot was under the command of Lieutenant E.W. Mansel on the Heligoland station. On 29 May she captured the Danish cutter privateer Snap, in the River Hever. Snap was armed with three guns and had a crew of nine. She had left Tonningen one week before but had made no captures.
That same month Mansel advised Commander William Goate of Musquito that Patriot had captured a Dutch gun-vessel of one gun, some swivel guns and 10 men in the Jahde River, a Danish privateer of one gun, six swivels and 25 men, off Langerooz, and with the hired armed vessel Alert, destroyed two French privateers and a sloop, also in the Jahde.
On 2, 4 and 5 June Patriot captured a "Danish Blankenaise boat" of unknown name, and two Dutch gunboats, the Calais and the Suapup.
Later in June a landing party from Blazer, Patriot, and Alert, under the command of Mansell and Lieutenant M'Dougall of Alert, attacked some French customs officers and soldiers stationed at Ekwarden in the River Jahde. The British drove the French from their posts and captured two customs boats, and one Danish and five French galiots. The British brought out their prizes, together with merchandise that the Danes and French had seized. There were no British casualties.
Then Lord George Stuart gave Goate command of a small force consisting of Musquito, the two Cherokee-class brig-sloops Briseis, and Ephira, five gun-brigs, including Basilisk, and Patriot and Alert. On 7 July they entered the Elbe. There was a battery at Cuxhaven so they anchored out range of its cannons.
Next morning at daylight Goate led a landing party but before they could attack the battery its 80-man garrison retreated, abandoning their guns. The British then loaded the battery’s six 24-pounders into vessels lying in the harbor, together with all the shot and military stores they could find and some other small guns. Next, they blew up the fort and seized two French gunboats, each of two guns. Lastly, the landing party handed the town of Cuxhaven back to the civil governor before returning to its vessels. Later, Mosquito, Basilisk and Aimable would share in the prize money.
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