HMS Alban (1806)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Alban |
| Owner: | Royal Navy |
| Ordered: | 2 April 1804 |
| Launched: | 1806 |
| Captured: | 12 September 1810 |
 Denmark
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| Name: | Alban |
| Owner: | Royal Danish Navy |
| Acquired: | 12 September 1810 |
| Captured: | 11 May 1811 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Alban |
| Owner: | Royal Navy |
| Acquired: | 11 May 1811 |
| Commissioned: | October 1811 |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 18 December 1812 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Adonis-class schooner |
| Tons burthen: | 110 75⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 20 ft 4 in (6.20 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) |
| Complement: | 35 |
| Armament: | 10 × 18-pounder carronades |
HMS Alban was one of twelve Adonis-class schooners of the Royal Navy and was launched in 1805. She served during the Napoleonic Wars. During the Gunboat War she took part in two engagements with Danish gunboats, during the second of which the Danes captured her. The British recaptured her seven months later, but she was wrecked in 1812.
Like the rest of her class, Alban was made of Bermudan or pencil cedar and to a design copied from that of the Lady Hammond, a Bermudan sloop. The Admiralty ordered the class as cutters, but they were completed as schooners. Even so, most references to Alban refer to her as a cutter. She had a crew of 35 men and carried an armament of ten 18-pounder carronades.
She was commissioned in May 1805 under Lieutenant James Stone. On 27 July she was under the command of Lieutenant Henry Wier and in company with Hazard, Conflict, Growler, and the hired armed brig Colpoys, when they captured nine French chasse marees. On 27 October she recaptured Favourite.
On 17 January 1808 Alban captured the American ship Active. Then on 8 April she sailed for Rio de Janeiro.
In 1809 Alban sailed to the Baltic. On 5 November she captured the Prussian sloop Gute Bothe.
On 23 May 1810 Alban was in company with Raleigh and the hired armed cutter, Princess of Wales, when they encountered seven Danish gunboats off The Skaw. In the subsequent engagement one gunboat blew up and the British succeeded in damaging and dispersing the other six.
On 13 June 1810, Alban captured the Regina Doreatha. Almost two weeks later, on 13 June, she captured the Danish galliot Catharina Augusta. Weir was promoted to the command of Calypso on 28 June 1810, but he was still captain of Alban on 12 July when she captured another Danish galliot, the Caroline. At some point command transferred to Lieutenant Samuel Thomas.
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