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HMS Dominica (1805)
HMS ''Dominica'' was a schooner that the British purchased in 1805 in the Leeward Islands.〔Contemporary reports by her commanders refer to her as a sloop or a brig.〕 Her crew mutinied in 1806, turning her over to the French, who immediately sent her out as the privateer ''Napoléon''. The British recaptured her four days after the mutiny and returned her to their service. In British service she captured some six small privateers. She was broken up in 1808.
==Initial service==
The British commissioned ''Dominica'' under Lieutenant Robert Peter. On 11 August 1805 ''Dominica'' captured the small rowboat ''Hazard'' about two leagues off Scotts Head, Dominica. She had a crew of 14 men armed with small arms. She was three days out of Pointe-à-Pitre and had not captured anything. At about the same time, Dominica captured a schooner.〔
Later that month, on the 25th, ''Dominica'' chased a French rowboat privateer for several hours before catching her in the lee of Dominica. The privateer was the ''Ravanche'', armed with a 12-pounder carronade in her bows and several swivel guns. She had only 15 men on board, having taken three small vessels during her eight weeks out of Guadeloupe.
A week later, on 2 September, at 8 am and about five leagues from The Saints, ''Dominica'' captured another rowboat, the ''Prudente''. ''Prudente'' had not realized that ''Dominca'' was a warship and approached. As soon as she realized her mistake, she attempted to escape. The wind being calm, Peter send Midshipman Jackson and eight volunteers in a boat to capture ''Prudente'', while shooting grape and canister at her from ''Dominica''. Two hours and two leagues on, ''Dominica''s boat caught up with the privateer. After the British had fired a few volleys of small arms fire, the enemy surrendered. The British had one man hurt when he broke his collarbone.〔
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