HMS Reindeer (1804)

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Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Reindeer
Ordered:	23 May 1804
Builder:	Samuel & Daniel Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	June 1804
Launched:	15 August 1804
Commissioned:	September 1804
Fate:	Captured and burnt by USS Wasp on 28 June 1814
General characteristics
Class and type:	Cruizer-class sloop
Tons burthen:	385 tons (350 tonnes)
Length:	100 ft 0 in (30.5 m)
Beam:	30 ft 7.5 in (9.33 m)
Draught:	5 ft 3 in (1.6 m) forward; 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)aft
Depth of hold:	12 ft 10 in (3.9 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	two-masted brig-sloop
Armament:	18 guns comprising 16 x 32-pounder carronades, plus2 x 6-pounder bow-chasers.

HMS Reindeer was an 18-gun sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy, and was launched in 1804. Technically, she was a brig-sloop, having only two masts whereas ship-sloops had a ship (three masted) rig. She was one of the numerous Cruizer class brig-sloops built during this war.

On 1814-06-29 HMS Reindeer encountered the American sloop USS Wasp commanded by Johnston Blakely about 500 miles west of Ushant. In the resulting action the Reindeer was wrecked by cannon fire, 25 of her crew being killed including her commander and 42 out of a total of 98 men and 20 boys and she was forced to surrender.

The following day Blakely decided Reindeer was too badly damaged and set her afire.

[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.