HMS Carron (1813)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Carron |
| Ordered: | 18 November 1812 |
| Builder: | Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard |
| Laid down: | March 1813 |
| Launched: | 9 November 1813 |
| Commissioned: | 11 November 1813 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 6 July 1820 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 20-gun Cyrus-class sixth-rate post ship |
| Tons burthen: | 459 2⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 29 ft 9 1⁄2 in (9.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 6 1⁄8 in (2.59 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 135 |
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HMS Carron was a 20-gun Cyrus-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1813 by Edward Adams, at Bucklers Hard in Hampshire. She was wrecked in 1820.
Carron was first commissioned in January 1814 under Captain Robert Cavendish Spencer (a son of George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer). At Bermuda, on 4 July 1814, Carron and Hermes embarked a company-strength force of Royal Marines, commanded by Edward Nicolls, for deployment on the Gulf Coast. They arrived at the mouth of the Apalachicola River on 14 August 1814. The vessels then took part in the unsuccessful British attack on Fort Bowyer on 15 September 1814 in which Hermes was lost. For much of the autumn, the Carron was at Pensacola, until General Andrew Jackson's numerically superior forces expelled the British at the start of November 1814.
Shortly thereafter, Carron made two lucrative captures when on 29 November she captured the schooners Hirondelle and Dos Amigos. For Spencer, the prize money was worth several years' pay. For an ordinary seaman, the money was worth a half to three-quarter's of a year's pay.
Next, Carron participated in the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December in the run up to the Battle of New Orleans. In 1821 the survivors of the British flotilla shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of five American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton. Captain Spencer was mentioned in dispatches for his part in reconnoitering the Bayou Catalan, so as to determine a suitable location for British forces to disembark. At the time of the besieging of Fort Bowyer in February 1815, Captain Spencer was among the sailors landed near Mobile, and was second in command of the Naval party.
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