French brig Albanaise ( 1790 ) The French brig " Albanaise ( or " Albannese " ) was launched in 1790 . In June 1800 the Royal Navy captured her in the Mediterranean and took her into service as HMS " Albanaise . In November her crew mutinied , took command of the vessel , and sailed her to Malaga where they surrendered her to the Spanish . French service . " Albanaise " was a tartane built for the purpose of transporting lumber for shipbuilding from Albania and Italy . She was built to a design by Ricaud du Temple , with the plans being dated 23 September 1789 and approved 23 October 1789 . However the project was abandoned and she was employed as an ordinary transport . In late 1792 she served as a powder magazine for four small frigates converted into bomb vessel s . At the time she was armed with four cannons . She then served out of Agde and Sète under " Enseigne de vaisseaux non entretenu " Bernard . In 1795 the French Navy converted her to a gun boat , of eight guns . Then between 1798 and February 1799 the French converted her to a brig , and armed her with 12 cannons . Capture . On 4 June 1800 and captured " Albanaise " . She was sailing from Toulon with provisions for Genoa when she encountered the " Port Mahon " , which initiated the chase about 35 miles west of Corsica . The chase lasted until early evening when " Phoenix " came up as " Albanaise " was just six miles out of Port Fino on Elba . Lieutenant Étienne J . ( or S . ) P . Rolland fired two broadsides and then struck . ( A subsequent court martial exonerated Rolland of the loss of his vessel . ) shared in the capture , as did a number of other vessels in the squadron blockading Genoa . British service . The British took her into service as HMS " Albanaise " and commissioned her under the command of Lieutenant Francis Newcombe . On 20 September she captured the Spanish vessel " Virgen del Rosario " . Then on 9 October she cleared the trabaccolo " Santa Maria " , which was carrying linseed from Barré to Ferraro . In November the crew of " Albanaise " mutinied while she was escorting a small convoy of seven merchantmen that were carrying cattle and barley from Arzew for the garrison at Gibraltar . On 22 November she had captured a small Spanish vessel and taken her eight - man crew board , while putting five men aboard the prize , including master ' s mate John Terrel as commander . Newcombe then took special precautions , worried about the possibility of the prisoners conspiring against their captors . Mutiny . That evening noises at midnight wakened Newcombe , who discovered that his crew were mutineering . He was able to shoot Hugh Keenan , one of the mutineers , dead . He would have shot the ringleader , Jacob Godfrey , but his pistol misfired . The mutineers then overpowered him and tied him up . The mutineers also restrained the other officers and loyal crew . The next day the mutineers took " Albanaise " into Malaga where they surrendered her to the Spanish . Courts martial . The court martial of Newcombe and his officers for their conduct during the mutiny took place on 7 June 1801 on board off Alexandria . The court acquitted Newcombe and his officers , judging that the crew ( many of whom were foreigners ) , had risen and overpowered the officers or restrained them and that the gunner , Mr . Lewyn , was to be especially commended for having resisted until wounded . The court gave its opinion that Lieutenant William Prosser Kent was unfit to hold a commission in the Navy because he refused , “ from mistaken religious motives ” , to give his evidence under oath . It further stated that it had reason to believe that Master ’ s Mate John Tyroll ( or Tyrell ) , although away in a prize at the time of the mutiny , knew of the plan and had not given warning . The court recommended further investigation into the crewmen Alexander M ’ Kiever and Thomas Parsons , who had been seen armed . Godfrey was hanged in January 1802 . Four crewmen were tried on in Portsmouth on 18 June 1802 . Tyroll was acquitted , the only evidence against him being an ambiguous statement by Godfrey and hearsay from another mutineer who was never caught . Furthermore , Tyroll ' s conduct in the year after the mutiny , when he had been transferred from vessel to vessel , had been exemplary as he participated in some 30 boat and other actions . The other three , Parsons , M ’ Keiver and J . Marriott , had returned from Malaga with Newcombe . The court martial board ordered that all three were to forfeit all pay and were to be incarcerated for three months in the Marshalsea . In addition , M ’ Keiver received 50 lashes and Marriott 100 . The British later captured several of the mutineers . Three more were tried on 27 September 1802 aboard . The court martial acquitted one man and sentenced another to 300 lashes . The court judged a third man , Patrick ( or Henry ) Kennedy , to have been a ringleader and ordered him tried separately . He was tried on 5 October and was sentenced to be hanged . He was hanged aboard on 16 October .