HMS Emulous
The British immediately but informally took Nautilus into service under the name Emulous, having just lost the Cruizer class brig-sloop Emulous on 2 August. Emulous proceeded to capture a number of American privateers or merchant vessels.
On 25 August Emulous captured the American ship Gossamer. That same day, Emulous captured the American privateer schooner Science, under the command of Captain W. Fernald. Science, of 74 tons, five guns and 52 men was on a cruise out of Portsmouth.
On 29 August the Admiralty formally purchased Nautilus/Emulous for £3,252 17s 2d. Next, Emulous was among the vessels sharing in Spartan's capture of the Melantho on 17 September. Four days later Emulous, with Orpheus, Spartan and Maidstone captured the brig Ambition, sailing from Baltimore to Boston on 21 September 1812.
On 2 February 1813 Emulous was commissioned under Commander William Mackenzie Godfrey, on the Halifax station. On 5 April she captured the American schooner privateer Cossack.
Next, on 5 May, Emulous, Shannon, Nymphe and Tenedos captured the schooner Ann, of 42 tons, sailing from New Orleans to Bourdeaux. That same day Nymphe, together with the same three other British ships, captured the American ship of war Montgomery, of 12 guns and a crew of 75 men. She was on her way home after a two month cruise off the coast of Ireland. On 4 August, Emulous recaptured the schooner Four Brothers, of 330 tons bm, R. Sinclair, master.
On 21 or 24 September, the Canadian privateer Dart drove the American privateer Orange, a chebacco boat of two guns and 11 men, on to Fox Island in Machias Bay on the coast of Maine. There the boats of Emulous and Bream, under the command of Lieutenant Wright of Emulous, destroyed her.
Then on 10 October, Emulous destroyed two small American privateers in Passamaquaddy Bay, between Maine and New Brunswick. One was a schooner called the Orion, of one gun and 16 men; the other was the row boat Camelion with 17 men and small arms. At some point Emulous captured the American ship Bird.
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