Dutch sloop Havik (1784)
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| Name: | de Havik |
| Builder: | Amsterdam |
| Launched: | 1784 |
| Captured: | 17 August 1796 |
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| Name: | HMS Havick |
| Acquired: | 17 August 1796 by capture |
| Fate: | Wrecked 9 November 1800 |
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| Type: | Ship-sloop |
| Tonnage: | 364 58⁄94 (bm) |
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| Propulsion: | Sails |
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The Dutch sloop Havik was launched in 1784. The British captured her in 1796 at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay. She then served briefly in the Royal Navy as HMS Havick (or Havik, or Havock) before she wrecked in late 1800.
Havik was a ship sloop with a quarter deck, built at Amsterdam in 1784 for the Dutch admiralty under the 8th Charter.
At Saldanha Bay a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, under the command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas (1747-21 June 1797), surrendered without a fight to a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone at Saldanha Bay on 17 August 1796. Havik was one of the vessels that the British captured. At the time of her capture, Havik, under the command of Lieutenant Pieter Bessemer (or Bezemer), was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 76 men.
Commander Charles Ekins was appointed to HMS Echo, supposed to be at the Cape of Good Hope, but found, on his arrival, that she had been condemned and broken up. He sailed Havik back to Britain. After his return to Britain, he was advanced to post captain on 22 December 1796.
Havick underwent fitting at Plymouth in the first two weeks or so of January 1797. The Royal Navy commissioned her under Commander Philip Bartholomew that month with the role of cruising and escorting convoys.
On 28 March 1799, Havik and the hired armed brig Telegraph sailed from Plymouth for the Île de Batz. Eight days later, Telegraph captured the French privateer Hirondelle on 5 May 1799 in a notable action. Havick claimed a share of the prize money, a claim that Telegraph's officers and crew contested. The matter was not settled until 1818.
One month after leaving Plymouth Havik returned, escorting two French brigs and a Dutch East Indiaman, the Zeeland, which was sailing from Tranquebar to Copenhagen. On 15 May Havick sailed with a convoy to Cork.
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