HMS Algerine (1810)
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| Name: | HMS Algerine |
| Ordered: | 2 October 1809 |
| Builder: | John King, Upnor |
| Laid down: | November 1809 |
| Launched: | 3 March 1810 |
| Completed: | By 20 June 1810 |
| Fate: | Wrecked on 20 May 1813 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Pigmy-class 10-gun schooner |
| Tons burthen: | 196 73⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 22 ft 10 1⁄2 in (7.0 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 1 in (3.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 60 |
| Armament: | 10 × 12-pounder carronades |
HMS Algerine was a Pigmy-class 10-gun schooner of the Royal Navy. She was launched in March 1810. She served in the North Sea and then transferred to the West Indies, where she was wrecked in 1813.
Algerine was commissioned in April 1810 under Lieutenant John Aitken Blow. She served initially in the Downs. On 30 March 1811, Algerine, under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Greenwood, seized the smuggling vessel Mandamus. The account in the London Gazette refers to Algerine as a cutter.
On 13 July 1811, Algerine, again under Blow, and the 12-gun brig-sloop Brev Drageren, under Thomas Barker Devon, engaged three Danish brigs in Long Sound, Norway, the 20-gun Lolland, the 18-gun Lougen, and the 16-gun Kiel. The Danes had 54 guns and 480 men, against the British 22 guns and 107 men; outnumbered and outgunned, the British vessels took flight.
The next day Brev Drageren unsuccessfully re-engaged first one and then two of the brigs. In the inconclusive engagement each British vessel sustained one man killed and Brev Drageren also had three wounded. In the second day’s fight, Algerine sent a boat with ten men and sweeps to Brev Drageren, which helped her escape the Danes, though not until after her crew had rowed for 30 hours.
On 15 July the gun-brig Wrangler, under Lieutenant J.B. Pettit (or Pettet), captured the Danish sloop Experiment, P. Loft, Master.Algerine shared in the prize money by agreement.
Early in September the Primus, carrying tar and hemp, the Worksam, in ballast, the Experiment, carrying iron, the Columbus, carrying linseed, the Neptunus, carrying timber, and the Hctor, carrying sundry goods, came into Yarmouth. They were prizes to Tremendous, Ranger, Calypso, Algerine, Musquito, Earnest. and Portia.
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