HMS Speedwell (1815)
For other uses, see HMS Speedwell.
HMS Speedwell was a 5-gun schooner of the Royal Navy purchased in 1815 and sold in 1834.
In his confessions before being executed on 11 January 1830 in the military fortress at La Puerta de Terra, San Fernando, a few miles south of Cadiz, the pirate Nicholas Fernandez, recalled an incident>:- We arrived at the coast of Cuba and learned that His Majesty’s schooner ‘Speedwell’ accompanied by several barges from other vessels of war, was engaged in securing a key near Cayo Romano off the north Coast of Cuba where a number of pirates had secreted themselves in the woods. Some small craft which the pirates used in other cruises, were captured by the barges … it was expected the pirates would be hunted from their lurking places.