Hired armed cutter John Bull
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | John Bull |
| Namesake: | John Bull |
| In service: | May 1804 |
| Out of service: | December 1806 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner |
 Great Britain
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| Name: | John Bull |
| Captured: | September 1809 |
 France
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| Name: | John Bull |
| Acquired: | 1809 by capture |
| Commissioned: | August 1810 |
| Fate: | Currently unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cutter |
| Tons burthen: | 119 36⁄94, or 120 (bm) |
| Complement: | 30 (privateer) |
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His Majesty's hired armed cutter John Bull served the British Royal Navy under contract between 5 May 1804 and 26 November 1806. She then became a privateer. She detained numerous vessels before she herself fell prey to a French privateer in 1809. She then became a French privateer. Her ultimate fate is currently unknown.
On 14 October 1804 John Bull delivered dispatches from Plymouth to Admiral Nelson in the Mediterranean. She left for Plymouth that same day. On 4 November John Bull arrived from Gibraltar with dispatches from off Toulon.
John Bull arrived at Port Royal, Jamaica, on 28 March 1805 after a 38-day voyage from Plymouth. She was carrying dispatches, and the news of the commencement of war with Spain, though the order that Spanish vessels be detained was already known.
On the way out John Bull had encountered Acasta, which a gale had caused to separate from the convoy that Acasta she was escorting to Jamaica. Acasta intended to search for the convoy for a day or two.
From Jamaica John Bull sailed on to Barbados where 10 vessels of the convoy had arrived before she left.
While on the Jamaica station, and prior to 1 June, John Bull, under the command of Lieutenant Kortwright, captured the French schooner Elizabeth, which was carrying a cargo of sundries.
In mid-September John Bull detained and sent into Plymouth two vessels: Palinurius, Merrehew, master, from New York, and Sirene, Horkendorf, master, from Bordeaux.
On 8 March 1806 John Bull, under the command of Lieutenant George Broad, captured the Spanish vessels Legero and Los Animos. On 2 May John Bull arrived with dispatches from Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren concerning the British victory at the Action of 13 March 1806
Between 18 and 21 June, Admiral Warren and a squadron were off Madeira. John Bull, Moucheron, and Whiting arrived at Madeira on 18 June and they sailed from Madeira to join the squadron on 21 June.
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