HMS Lutine (1779) up at this point. In 1814, Pierre Eschauzier was allocated 300 guilders for salvage by the Dutch King and recovered "8 Louis d'or and 7 Spanish piastres fished out of the wreck of the Lutine". In 1821, Eschauzier put together a syndicate with the intention of using a diving bell manned by "amphibicque" Englishmen. However, Mr. Rennie, the engineer died that year; in 1822, the bell arrived at the end of June, but operations were frustrated by bad weather and silting-up of the wreck; at this stage the wreck was reckoned to be under the sand. Although salvage attempts continued
HMS Vincejo (1799) HMS Vincejo (1799) HMS "Vincejo" (or "Vencejo" or "Vencego", or informally as "Vincey Joe"), was the Spanish naval brig "Vencejo", which was built c.1797, probably at Port Mahon, and that the British captured in 1799. The Royal Navy took her into service and she served in the Mediterranean where she captured a privateer and a French naval brig during the French Revolutionary Wars. After the start of the Napoleonic Wars, the French captured "Vencejo" in Quiberon Bay in 1804. The French Navy took her into service as "Victorine", but then sold her in January 1805. She then served as the