HMS Alonzo (1801)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | Alonzo |
| Owner: | Brown |
| Launched: | 1800, Shields |
| Fate: | Sold 1801 |
 UK
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| Name: | HMS Alonzo |
| Acquired: | 1801 by purchase |
| Fate: | Scuttled 1842 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 384 (bm) |
| Length: | 102 ft 3 in (31.2 m) (overall); 81 ft 1 in (24.7 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 10 in (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Sail plan: | Sloop |
| Complement: | 100 |
| Armament: | 2 × 18-pounder + 14 × 24-pounder carronades |
| Notes: | Coppered 1800 |
HMS Alonzo was a ship launched at Shields in 1800 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1801. During the Napoleonic Wars she served in the Channel and the Baltic. At the end of the war she served as a hulk in various capacities prior to being scuttled off Leith in 1842.
Alonzo entered Lloyd's Register in 1801 with J. Gardner, master, and Brown, owner. Her trade was London-Jamaica. Later that year the Royal Navy purchased her. 373 tons bm
The Navy purchased Alonzo from John Dudman on 8 February 1801. She then underwent fitting at Deptford until 25 March.
Commander Robert Cathcart commissioned her in February for the Downs. Commander Hassard Stackpole replaced Cathcart before, in May 1802, Commander W. H. Falknor (or Faulknor) replaced him in turn. On 31 October Alonzo arrived at Portsmouth from Jersey with stores from Pomone, which had wrecked there. On 30 November Alonzo sailed to "open a rendezvous at Dublin, for the entry of seamen."
In June 1803 Faulkner recommissioned Alonzo for service at Dublin for recruitment and impressement.
In October 1803 Commander John Impey was in command. That month, Alonzo was off Bognor when a three-day long gale resulted in her losing her masts and rudder, springing a dangerous leak, and coming close to being lost. Midshipman James Hervey Price managed to get ashore with dispatches on the third day and convey them to a signal station, which transmitted news of Alonzo's plight to Portsmouth.
Then on 10 March 1804 Alonzo came into Portsmouth. A few days earlier she had been driven aground at Chichester Park but assistance from the dockyard had gotten her off. At Portsmouth she was to undergo repairs for the damage she had received. On 2 April Alonzo sailed from Deal with a British squadron that was to escort some "stone ship' to Boulogne where they were to be scuttled to block the harbour. The attempt was abandoned and most of the squadron was back at Dungeness two or three days later.
On 12 June 1804 Alonzo returned to Portsmouth from Selsey where she had been serving as a guard ship.
In July 1804 Commander James Watson replaced Impey, with Alonzo serving on the Downs station.
Between May and August 1808 she was at Chatham undergoing fitting as a defence ship for Gibraltar. In May Commander Cuthbert Featherstone Daly recommissioned her, but in June Commander William Buckley Hunt replaced Daly, and in July William Knight replaced Hunt.
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