Ranger_1809

British Southern Voyage

WRIBV071320
VesselRanger
MasterJoseph Whiteus / Whitehouse
Departure1809-02-20
Return (days)1810-07-31 (527)
Port (dock)London
Owner (Agent)Daniel & William Bennett
SourcesSST1; SST2
ReportsReported home after being boarded by French privateer off South Foreland
NotesBristol Mirror , Saturday 04 August 1810 , Gallant Exploit.—About half past on Saturday night, the Ranger, a whaler, Captain Whiters [Whiteus] belonging to Bennett, Blackheath, was coming round the North Foreland, on her way to the Downs, she was hailed a large lugger, and asked she wanted pilot. Captain Whiters, suspecting she was French privateer, desired her to keep off, but she ran alongside, and boarded with 20 men ... Capt. Whiters, who had but one arm, with his crew (only sixteen in number), engaged the Frenchmen, and literally beat out their brains, or drove them overboard. The lugger again boarded with as many more, and met with the same reception, the whole being either killed wounded, with the exception of four, now aboard the whaler as prisoners; one of them an Irishman, a Lieutenant on board the lugger; one an American, and the other two Frenchmen, all having their skulls fractured, and their faces in a shocking state ... A Gentleman, who was on board the Ranger, says the decks were covered with blood and brains: saw two Frenchmen hove overboard, who died of their wounds.

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