Talk:Colpoys (1803 ship)

Two Colpoys, or even three?
In addition to the naval hire for the Brest station, there was a Colpoys active in the Caribbean, mostly as a privateer, between March and July 1804, and again in late-1807. I was going to add before the navy history: ==Privateer== In 1804 the schooner Colpoys was licensed as a privateer in the Caribbean, commanded by John Eagan. On 22 March 1804 Colpoys seized the American brig Harriott, which was on a voyage from Bordeaux to Philadelphia and took her to Tortola, and then to the Vice Admiralty Court in Antigua for adjudication as prize. On 29 April 1804 she took the American brig Samuel, sailing from Martinique to Philadelphia. Further captures included other American vessels, Exchange, also sailing from Bordeaux to Philadelphia, and Fame, as well as the Swedish-flag La Diligente, sailing from St. Batholomews for St. Thomas (this seizure was later overturned in the Prize Appeal Court, sitting in the Cockpit, Whitehall, with the ship and cargo being restored to the owners), and, on 17 July, the Venetian Bella Guidetta, also on a voyage to St Thomas, but from Leghorn. and, after the naval service: The Danish ships Amalia, Esevido and the American Hannah were taken in late 1807 under embargo by the privateers Alexander, and Colpoys. Hannah was restored as American.

And then I found this: "London, March 16, 1810. Notice is hereby given, that an Account of the Proceeds of the Schooner Boat Nostra Senora Montserrata, Planchart, Master, captured on the 5th November 1807, by His Majesty's Hired Schooner of War Colpoys the 2d, G. A. Spearing, Lieutenant commanding, Tender to His Majesty's Ship Belleisle, is lodged in the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty. John Dougan, Agent." and similar ("Hired Armed Schooner of War Colpoys (2d))".


 * The main problem is that the dates of the 1804 Caribbean seizures overlap with the known dates of Colpoys' first deployment in the English Channel in April.


 * Also we have the end-of-hire as 28 August 1807. What is the source of that date (all I have to hand has "4/1804-1807")?