HMS Ballahoo (1804)
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| Name: | HMS Ballahoo |
| Ordered: | 23 June 1803 |
| Builder: | Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda |
| Laid down: | 1803 |
| Launched: | 1804 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe" |
| Captured: | 29 April 1814 by American privateer |
| Fate: | Wrecked immediately thereafter |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ballahoo-class schooner |
| Tonnage: | 70 41⁄94> (bm) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
| Sail plan: | Schooner |
| Complement: | 20 |
| Armament: | 4 × 12-pounder carronades |
HMS Ballahoo (also Balahou, Ballahou or Ballahon) was the first of the Royal Navy's Ballahoo-class schooners, vessels of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. She patrolled primarily in the Leeward Islands, taking several small prizes, before an American privateer captured her in 1814 during the War of 1812.
She was commissioned in January 1804 under Lieutenant William Shephard. In September Lieutenant took over. He was appointed to Ballahoo immediately after receiving his commission on 23 September 1804. When she was ordered to Halifax in February 1805 Admiral Sir John T. Duckworth transferred him to the frigate Surveillante.
Command then transferred to Lieutenant H.N. Bowen, who was killed in 1806. Lieutenant James Murray replaced Bowen.
On 27 February 1807 the sloop Port d'Espagne and the schooner Express captured the brig Altrevido, Nichola Valpardo, Master. Ballahoo shared by agreement in the prize money due Express.
On 4 August 1807, Ballahoo was in company with the schooner Laura, of 10 guns, when they encountered the French letter of marque Rhone some five or six leagues N by E of Tobago. After a running fight of several hours, they captured her. In the fight Rhone suffered two dead and five wounded out of her crew of 26; the British had no casualties.Rhone, under the command of Francis Goureu, was of 90 tons (bm), mounted six long 6-pounder guns, and was 10 days out from Martinique, having captured nothing.
On 20 August Ballahoo's boats, with the assistance of the 1-gun privateer Maria that Port d'Espagne had taken, destroyed a small privateer in the Bay of San Juan. Head money was paid some 21 years later.
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