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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Elizabeth.

History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
NameHMS Elizabeth
Acquired1805 by capture
FateFoundered c.September 1807
General characteristics [1]
Tonnage110 (bm)
Sail planCutter (or schooner)
Complement55[2]
Armament10 guns

HMS Elizabeth was a Spanish dispatch cutter named Elizabet that HMS Bacchante captured off Havana in 1805. The British Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. She disappeared in 1807, believed foundered without a trace.

Capture

On 3 April 1805, Bacchante captured the Spanish naval cutter or schooner Elizabeth of ten guns and 47 men under the command of Don Josef Fer Fexegron. Elizabeth had been carrying dispatches from the Spanish governor of Pensacola, but had thrown these overboard before her capture.[3][Note 1]

HMS, and loss

The Royal Navy commissioned Elizabeth in 1806 under Lieutenant John Sedley.[1] She disappeared c.September 1807 without a trace, presumed to have foundered with all hands.[5]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

  1. ^ Head money for Isabella, alias Elizabeth, was paid in January 1821. A first-class share was worth £76 18s 5¼d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 7s 1¼d.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p.366.
  2. ^ Gilly (1864), p.377.
  3. ^ "No. 15815". The London Gazette. 11 June 1805. pp. 772–773.
  4. ^ "No. 17676". The London Gazette. 3 February 1821. p. 296.
  5. ^ Hepper (1994), p.120.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
  • Gilly, William O.S. (1864) Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy Between 1793 and 1857 Compiled Principally from Official Documents in the Admiralty. (Longman, Green).
  • 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 1-86176-246-1.
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