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Seine, † 1804
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 36
Completed ‡ : Taken 1798 ;
Disposal date or year § : 1813
Disposal Details : BU
Notes:
1798 Embuscade Captured
1798 Taken into the navy as Ambuscade
1804 Renamed Seine
1805 Jamaica Station
27 May 1805 Ship's barge takes armed schooner Concepcion - see below
Mid Jun 1805 Ship's barge destroys a Spanish sloop takes a felucca, also named Concepcion - see below
6 Jul 1806, Part of a British squadron, under Rear-admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, cruising in the region of the Drake's bay, Tortola, with a view to protecting a British convoy of 280 vessels from being preyed upon by a French Squadron under M. Willaumez , who on sighting the squadron avoided making contract.
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On the 27th of May, the British 12-pounder 36-gun frigate Seine, Captain David Atkins, while cruising off Aguadilla, island of Porto-Rico, despatched her barge, under the command of Lieutenant of marines Thomas Bland, in pursuit of an armed schooner ; which, after some resistance, but no loss on either side, was captured, and proved to be the Concepcion, mounting two long 6-pounders, with a crew of 10 men, besides several passengers, who escaped in a small boat. About three weeks afterwards the same enterprising officer, assisted by Midshipman Edward Cook, being on a cruise in the barge and away from the ship, destroyed a Spanish sloop, and captured, after an action of three quarters of an hour, a second Concepcion, a large felucca, bound from Porto-Rico to Cadiz with a cargo of cocoa and cochineal, and armed with two long 4-pounders and 14 men ; of whom five were severely wounded. No loss whatever was sustained by the barge.