īy 12 February 1804 Admiral Mitchell was under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Shippard. Harper then transferred briefly to the hired armed cutter Duke of Clarence, which was also on the Guernsey station. Rowley, for whom Harper had been flag lieutenant, placed him on Admiral Mitchell, and sent him on a confidential mission to the coast of France. Lieutenant John Harper also commanded Admiral Mitchell briefly, possibly in late 1803 or early 1804.
Head money for the brig was paid 24 years later, in December 1827. Shippard also received promotion to the rank of commander on 3 March 1804. Lloyd's Patriotic Fund awarded Shippard a presentation sword worth 50 guineas. Admiral Mitchell had one gun dismounted, suffered damage to her mast and rigging, and had five men wounded, two seriously. After two and a half hours of cannonading, Admiral Mitchell succeeded in driving one sloop and the brig, which was armed with twelve 32-pounder guns, on the rocks. Instead, Shippard brought up Admiral Mitchell and attacked the convoy. He sent Harpy and Lark to pursue them but the winds were uncooperative and the squadron was unable to engage. In between, on 21 October 1803 Captain Robert Honyman of Leda sighted a convoy off Boulogne of six French sloops, some armed, under the escort of a gun-brig. On 21 August 1803 Shippard landed Georges Cadoudal, the Chouan chief, at Biville, between Dieppe and Tréport, and on 16 January in the following year he landed General Pichegru at the same place. Admiral Mitchell was attached to the fleet under Lord Keith for the guard of the Narrow Seas, that is, the English Channel. Lieutenant Alexander Shippard assumed command, apparently before the contract took effect. Second contract Īdmiral Mitchell 's second contract ran from 26 August 1803 to 6 April 1805. There she and all the hired craft turned in their stores and guns to the yard and gunwharf. On 28 October, Derby sailed Admiral Mitchell into Catwater. The cutter Alert was in company at the time.
She had a cargo of "India goods of various descriptions, valued per manifest at £50,000, supposed French property as a French merchant, supercargo, and family on board going to Old Prance". On 25 August letters reached Plymouth that Derby had brought into Dartmouth a large American ship that had been sailing from New York to Havre de Grace. On 29 June 1801, Admiral Mitchell, recaptured three vessels: the brigs Supply and Favorite, and the sloop Prince of Wales. On 3 June 1801, Admiral Mitchell arrived in Portsmouth from a cruise, having recaptured, off Boulogne, two vessels, laden with iron and timber, and sent them into Dover. Her duties were to carry dispatches to and from the British fleet off the coast of France, and escort convoys. However, items in the Naval Chronicle suggest that Admiral Mitchell was thereafter under the command of Lieutenant John Derby (or Darby). An item in the London Chronicle indicates that a Lieutenant Shirley commanded her in May. In 1806 the Admiralty purchased her and took her into service as the Sir Andrew Mitchell in 1807.Īdmiral Mitchell 's first contract ran from 22 January 1800 to 26 October 1801.
She participated in several notable small engagements and actions. His Majesty's hired armed cutter (or schooner) Admiral Mitchell served under two contracts for the British Royal Navy, one at the end of the French Revolutionary Wars and the second at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.
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