Fiorenzo to order Berwick to join him off Cap Corse. Tarleton reported back to the fleet that night, giving Hotham news of Berwicks capture, and presumably an updated location of the French fleet, as Hotham changed his course, heading north-west. The following morning on 10 March the British came in sight of the French fleet, now beating northwards back to Toulon against a south-west wind. At the subsequent battle of Genoa (14 March 1795), Tarleton was in the seaboard or weather division under Vice-Admiral Samuel Goodall. After the battle, was towing when she broke free of her tow. Then the accidental firing of a lower deck gun damaged the ship so that she took on water. Illustrious attempted to anchor in Valence Bay (between Spezia and Leghorn) to ride out the bad weather that had descended upon her. Her cables broke, however, and she struck on rocks and had to be abandoned. and Tarleton took off her stores, and all her crew were saved. Shortly thereafter, Brisbane removed to the sloop . Captain Robert Redmill took command of Tarleton in July 1796. Redmill remained in command only a short time before transferring to another vessel. In September Lieutenant William Proby replaced Redmill. By this time Tarleton was in a wretched state, leaky and rotten. In December Admiral Jervis observed that she was "in extreme danger" of sinking even while undertaking a short voyage between two Mediterranean ports. Fate On 21 October 1796 Captain Nelson wrote to Admiral Jervis that he, Nelson, was sending Tarleton to Jervis so that, as Jervis wanted, he could transfer Proby to Téméraire. Nelson wrote on 29 December that he expected to be able to sell Tarleton and Mignonne. However, on 2 December Jervis wrote from Gibraltar to Lord Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, that he, Jervis, intended to transfer Proby to , and that Tarleton had been sold. The British ended up burning Mignonne in 1797. Notes Citations References Chadwick, French Ensor, ed., (1916) The Graves Papers and Other Documents Relating to the Naval Operations of the Yorktown Campaign, July to October 1781. (New York: De Vinne Press for the Naval History Society) Colledge, J.J., & Ben Warlow (2010) Ships of the Royal Navy: A Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present. (Casemate / Greenhill). Corbett, Julian S. ed., (1914) Private papers of George,