HMS Weazel (1805)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Weazel.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Weazel
Ordered: 7 November 1803
Builder: Thomas Owen, Topsham
Laid down: February 1804
Launched: January 1805
Fate: Sold for breaking 1825
General characteristics
Class and type: Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tonnage: 382 41/94 bm
Length: 100 ft 0 in (30.48 m) (gundeck)
77 ft 3.5 in (23.559 m) (keel)
Beam: 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Sail plan: Brig rigged
Complement: 121
Armament:

18 cannons:

  • 16 x 32-pounder carronades
  • 2 x 6-pounder bow guns

HMS Weazel (sometimes spelt Weazle and Weasel) was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, launched in 1805 at Topsham, Devon. She saw active service in and around the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars, was decommissioned in 1815 and was sold for breaking in 1825.

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Service

Weazel entered service in 1805, under the command of Commander Peter Parker in the Mediterranean. In 1806 command passed John Clavell, who operated off Catalonia before serving in the Adriatic Sea and off Corfu at the start of the Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814. Clavell was visiting Corfu when word arrived that the island had been been transferred from Russian control to France in the Treaty of Tilsit. Escaping from the newly arrived French garrison, Weasel captured or destroyed a number of French transports before bringing the news back to Malta.

In 1808, Henry Prescott took command off Sardinia and Weazel took part in coastal opartions off Italy and in hunting privateers in the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1811 command passed to John Strutt Peyton, who took Weazel to the Aegean Sea, operating off Smyrna. In 1812, Weazel, commanded now by John William Andrew, moved to the Adriatic again, and joined the ship of the line HMS Victorious. Together the ships watched Venice harbour and observed the completion and departure of the French ship of the line Rivoli. In the Action of 22 February 1812, Victorious and Weazel chased and defeated Rivoli and her escorts, Weazel holding off the small ships guarding Rivoli and destroying one, while Victorious defeated and captured the French ship of the line.

Weazel remained in the Adriatic into 1813, assisting George Cadogan in HMS Havannah in his raiding campaign on the Italian coast. At the end of the campaign in early 1814, Weazel returned to Britain.

Fate

Weazel was sold for breaking to John Small Sedger of Rotherhide on 20 July 1825.[1]

References

  1. ^ Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.  p.71

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