HMS Anacreon (1813)
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Name | HMS Anacreon |
Namesake | Anacreon |
Ordered | 12 July 1805 |
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Laid down |
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Launched | 1 May 1813 |
Fate | Foundered without a trace in 1814 |
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Class and type | Revived Cormorant-class sloop |
Tons burthen | 42713⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 29 ft 8+1⁄4 in (9.0 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) |
Complement | 121 (Royal Navy) |
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HMS Anacreon had an extremely brief career. She was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year.
Career
[edit]Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned her in May 1813,[1] but she had apparently already been in service by then. On 9 April 1813 Eleanor Wilhelmina arrived at Yarmouth, Anacreon having detained her as she was sailing from North Bergen.[2] Davies then sailed Anacreon for Lisbon on 3 August.
On 1 February 1814 she recaptured the Spanish ship Nostra Senora del Carmen la Sirena. Late in January the French privateer Lion had captured three ships in all and plundered two, which she had permitted to go on to Lisbon. Anacreon had recaptured the third, Nostra Senora..., and then had set off in pursuit of the privateer.[3][a]
Loss
[edit]Anacreon was last sighted on 28 February 1814 in the English Channel as she was returning from Lisbon. Soon thereafter, she disappeared without trace in a storm. All aboard were lost.[5][6]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 260.
- ^ Lloyd's List №4761.
- ^ Lloyd's List №4849.
- ^ "No. 17058". The London Gazette. 5 September 1815. p. 1813.
- ^ Hepper (1994), p. 149.
- ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. 13 May 1814.
References
[edit]- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.