HMS Meteor (1803)

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Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Meteor
Acquired:	October 1803
Fate:	Sold on 28 May 1811
General characteristics
Class and type:	bomb vessel
Tons burthen:	364 long tons (369.8 t)
Length:	103 ft (31.4 m) (keel)
Beam:	29 ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Armament:	8 guns: 8 x 24 pdr carronades 1 x 13 in mortar

HMS Meteor was a bomb vessel of the Royal Navy. She was previously a civilian vessel, the Sarah Ann. She was purchased in October 1803.

In 1807, under the command of James Collins, she was a member of a fleet sent against the Turks. She had the misfortune to burst her 13-inch mortar while forcing a passage through the Dardanelles, and her 10-inch mortar on the way back. In November 1808, still under Collins's command, she took part in an attack on the French at Rosas Bay in northeastern Spain.

She was sold on 28 May 1811.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.