HMS Attentive (1804)
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| Name: | HMS Attentive |
| Ordered: | June 1804 |
| Builder: | Bools and Good, Bridport |
| Laid down: | July 1804 |
| Launched: | 18 September 1804 |
| Fate: | Broken up August 1812 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Archer-class gun brig |
| Tons burthen: | 178 78⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 22 ft 7 in (6.9 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 5 in (2.9 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 50 |
| Armament: | 10 x 18-pounder carronades + 2 chase guns |
HMS Attentive was an Archer-class gun-brig of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804. she captured a small privateer and participated in some other captures in the Leeward Islands before returning to Britain, where she was broken up in 1812.
Attentive was commissioned in November 1804 under Lieutenant John Harris. He sailed her for the leeward Islands in May 1805.
In July and early August 1806, Attentive was part of a squadron that included Prevost and Express, and that was under the command of Commander Donald Campbell (acting), in Lilly. Together, they supported General Francisco de Miranda in his quixotic and unsuccessful attempt to liberate the Viceroyalty of New Granada from Spain.
Lieutenant Robert Carr replaced Harris, in 1807.
In the spring of 1807, Attentive's boats cut out two doggers, from the small port of La Trinité, Martinique. There was an English negro on board one who offered to pilot the British in to take an unprotected sloop with a cargo of sugar that was lying a few miles to the windward. That night, twelve men in two jolly boats set out to capture the sloop. Adverse tides made for slow going and it was only at dawn that they were able to enter the harbour. After one of the boats went in chase of a small craft, Lieutenant Cox, the overall commander of the cutting out party, suddenly noticed that a guarda costa was anchored between him and the sloop. The garda costa's crew lined her sides and fired small arms at the British, but apparently did not fire the two 6-pounder guns that were pointing at their attackers. Cox and his five men nevertheless pushed forward and within minutes captured her. Cox then set sail and was able to rejoin Attentive within two hours. He had had only one man wounded in the attack.
At some point in 1807, Attentive captured a row-boat privateer in the Gulf of Paria.
On 17 October 1807 Attentive was between Trinidad and Tobago when she encountered the Spanish privateer lugger Nuestra Senora del Carmen. Nuestra Senora was armed with two carriage guns, as well as swivel guns and small arms, and had a crew of 63 men under the command of Don Thomaso Lisaro. She also had 40 sweeps to propel her in a calm. During the encounter, she had three men wounded before she struck. She had left Barcelona only 15 days earlier and had captured the sloop Harriot, of St. Vincent.
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