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The Paragon was a
full-rigged ship built at Lancaster in 1800. She was armed with 14 x
9-pounder and 6 x 24-pounder guns, and was equipped with a letter of
marque (see Source 1).
The Morning Chronicle, Friday, 19th August 1803;
" On Saturday last, says a letter from
Lancaster, dated August 13, we had the pleasure of seeing the first
prize brought into this port, this war, viz. the coppered French ship
polacre L'Harmonie, Peter
Paul Boniface master, burthen 238 tons, laden with 307 bales of cotton,
20 bundles of buffalo hides, 985 cwt.Campeachy wood, &c. She sailed
from New Orleans, for Marseilles, on the 14th of June, and was captured
on the 25th July, in lat.35.10, long.23.16, by the Paragon, letter of marque, of this
port, Captain Hart, belonging to Messrs.Ridley and Dodson. She had
seven passengers, four of whom arrived in her. They had not heard of
the war."
The position of the encounter with the L'Harmonie was 350 nm NW of Madeira, and it appears from a later report that the crew of the French vessel were taken aboard the Paragon, which proceeded to Barbados, having to repel an attack from a French privateer near that island. Capt.Hart, of the Paragon, of Lancaster, sent a message from Barbados, dated 16th August 1803, reporting an action 18 leagues to windward of Barbados with a French schooner privateer of 12 guns and 100 men. During an action of one hour, the Paragon repulsed two attempts to board her, and used grapeshot from the heavy guns on her quarter-deck to inflict "dreadful carnage among the crew of the privateer; her decks were almost covered with dead bodies before she got from alongside, and her scubbards run with blood." Of the 30 crew of the Paragon, two were killed and seven wounded. The Paragon had 18 guns, and also had 20 French prisoners aboard.
On the 3rd April 1804 the Paragon was reported as part of a West India convoy of 38 sail, under the protection of HM frigate Carysfort.
The Paragon disappeared from Lloyd's Register after 1830.
A brig named Paragon was built at Lancaster in 1824.
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