HMS Brazen (1808)
| History | |
|---|---|
 UK
|
|
| Name: | HMS Brazen |
| Ordered: | 6 November 1794; cancelled 1799 and re-ordered later |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard, master shipwright Nicholas Diddams |
| Laid down: | 15 June 1807 |
| Launched: | 26 May 1808 |
| Fate: | Broken up July 1848 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bittern-class ship sloop |
| Tonnage: | 42157⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: |
|
| Beam: | 29 ft 6 1⁄2 in (9.0 m) |
| Draught: |
|
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 6 in (2.6 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Armament: |
|
HMS Brazen was a Bittern-class 28-gun Royal Navy ship sloop, launched in 1808.
Though she served during the Napoleonic Wars, she appears to have missed any combat whatsoever and to have taken few prizes in that conflict. However, in the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom she captured Beaver and Warren in the Gulf of Mexico, but Warren was wrecked on Grand Gosier Island, near New Orleans, in a hurricane. Brazen suffered severe damage in the hurricane and, after local repair, was recalled to England for a survey.
After the survey she escorted convoys to Canada and back and recaptured Daphne. She then carried the Duke of Brunswick to Holland and patrolled the Irish Sea until her return to the West Indies Station. In 1815, she carried the news of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, to British troops that had captured Fort Bowyer and assisted in carrying them to England. After the war she took part in surveys of the Venezuelan coast and patrolled the Gulf of Mexico, capturing several prizes.
In the 1820s she served with the West Africa Squadron working to suppress the slave trade. In this service she captured numerous slavers and liberated over 2,000 slaves. Brazen ended her career as a floating chapel and was broken up in 1848.
She was commissioned by Commander Lewis Shepard in July 1808 for the Jamaica station. Shepard was promoted to post-captain on 21 October 1810. From October 1810 she was under the command of Richard Plummer Davies, still on the Jamaica station.
Between June 1812 and August 1818 she was under the command of Commander James Stirling and for most of that time served in the West Indies. Stirling joined the ship in Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica, on 29 June 1812 and on 11 July Brazen left on her first mission in the War of 1812, to harass American ports and shipping in the Gulf of Mexico.
...
Wikipedia