HMS Belette (1806)
Sixteen Danish gunboats attacked Belette, which sank three of them before boats from other British ships arrived and towed her clear.Belette was one of seven British warships sharing in the proceeds of the capture on 28 August of the Danish merchant vessel Sally.Before running afoul of Belette, Jalouse had captured Mary and Lark, both of Halifax, and General Green, of Surinam, which last some other British warship had since recaptured.[19][e] On 23 July duplicates of the dispatches and much besides were found concealed aboard the cartel Phoenix, which had sailed from Cayenne and had stopped in Barbados.[26] She then participated in the capture of Guadeloupe (January – February 1810), which earned for her crew the clasp "Guadaloupe" to the NGSM, as well as further prize money, which she shared with 49 other vessels.[27][g] Sanders received promotion to post-captain on 2 June 1809.The medal data indicates that David Sloane took command after Martinique and before Guadeloupe.[30][31] Unknown to the British, Danish Captain Hans Peter Holm had returned to Egersund (SW Norway) with Lolland and four other brigs.[32][33] On 1 May 1811,[34] the British sent four boats from Belette, Cherokee and Clio,[35] into the western end of the sound, expecting to capture some shipping or do other mischief.As the British rowed boldly in, they met unexpected fire from howitzers and muskets; they immediately withdrew, with the Danish boats in pursuit.[39][i] On 24 November 1812 Belette, under Sloane, was in the Kattegat leading Russian ships through the south-west passage of Anholt towards Gothenburg when she went aground on a sunken rock called "John" (or "Fannot") off Læsø.[41] This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by the National Maritime Museum, as part of the Warship Histories project.