Reference:
ADM 51/2324 Location:
Public Record Office
Richmond
Surrey
TWD 4DU
UK. Log of HMS Endymion
Monday 10th October 1814
Lat. 40.51 Long. 70.37
PM.
Light winds and fine.
12-1.
Saw another sail NE made them out to be a ship and schooner standing in for Nantucket made all sail in chase.
4.
Light airs and ?
5-6.
Calm and fine, out boats and sent them manned and armed with 105 men and officers in chase of the schooner which we supposed to be a privateer and her prize.
6.
Anchored ? from the southend of Nantucket, burnt blue lights and rockets to show our position to the boats.
9.
Enemy opened a fire on the boats which continued for twenty minutes.
Midnight.
Calm and fine.
AM
Calm and fine. The launch, barge, cutter and gig returned being repulsed by the enemy, with the loss of ten killed 31 wounded, Lieut. Hawkins and Ormond 4 mids and 30 seamen and marines missing with the yawl.
Daylight.
Weighted and hoisted in the boats, made all sail to westward. Slight airs and fine.
A Scottish newspaper recorded the death of a local resident in this action; Aberdeen Journal 1st(?) January 1815.
Deaths....In the early part of October last John Dalzell, Esq. Of Glenae, midshipman on board His Majesty's frigate Endymion. He was killed in an attack by the Endymion's boats, at the island of Nantucket, upon the American privateer Neufchatel.  |
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