Initially " Forden Shieold " would not surrender but after a few shots from " Ringdove " had killed one man and wounded two others she struck.
12.
She was reassigned to become a salvage vessel in December 1915, and swapped names with the " Redbreast "-class gunboat, thereby becoming the sixth " Ringdove " to serve in the Royal Navy.
13.
This campaign led to the award in 1847 of the clasps " Anse La Barque 18 Decr . 1809 " and " Guadaloupe " to the Naval General Service Medal . " Ringdove " remained in the Leeward Islands through 1812.
14.
The Admiralty sold " Ringdove " to Samuel Cunard & Co . at Halifax for ?05 on 11 June 1829 . Cunard was a Nova Scotian who built up a fleet of 40 sailing vessels before founding the Cunard Line in 1840.
15.
There they were blockaded until 14 April, when a British force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in, invaded and captured the islands . " Ringdove " was among the naval vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the islands.
16.
"Pictou " recaptured the sloop " Ringdove ", which the American privateer " Polly ", of Salem had captured . " Polly " had also captured a schooner carrying a cargo of stone, but the schooner too had been recaptured.
17.
The same four British vessels shared in the capture of the privateer " Trente et Quarante ", of 16 guns and 62 men, though the actual captor was " Ringdove " . " Trente et Quarante " was a lugger letter of marque, carrying sixteen guns, 6 and 9 pounders, of which 14 were mounted.
18.
A suggestion made by Goldziher, and later written on by Philip K . Hitti in his " History of the Arabs ", proposes that " The appellation is presumably taken from the story of the ringdove in " Kalilah wa-Dimnah " in which it is related that a group of animals by acting as faithful friends ( " ikhwan al-safa " ) to one another escaped the snares of the hunter . " This story is mentioned as an exemplum when the Brethren speak of mutual aid in one " risaala " ( treatise ), a crucial part of their system of ethics.
