Battalion (1795 ship)
Battalion was launched at Whitby in 1795. She traded with the Baltic and then in 1796 became a Liverpool-based West Indiaman. A French privateer captured her in 1797 as she was outbound on her first voyage to Jamaica. The Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She was last listed in "Lloyd's Register" ("LR") in 1797. "Battalion" first appeared in "Lloyd's Register" in 1795. "Battalion" was sold to Liverpool in 1796. Her new owners sailed her as a West Indiaman. Captain Thomas Oxton acquired a letter of marque on 4 January 1797. On 29 January "Battalion , Oxton, master, was sailing from Liverpool to Jamaica when the French privateer Jeune Emilie" captured her at . "Jeune Emilie" was armed with 10 guns and eight swivel guns, and had a crew of 80 men. On 11 February took the 10-gun privateer brig "Jeune Emilie", which was forty days out of Saint-Malo and had taken the sloop "Friendship" as well as the 10-gun letter of marque "Battalion".