HMS Fantome (1810)
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| Name: | HMS Fantome |
| Acquired: | by capture, 28 May 1810 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "28 April Boat Service 1813" |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 24 November 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Brig |
| Tons burthen: | 380 6⁄94 tons (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 11 in (9.4 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 0 in (4.0 m) |
| Complement: | 74 |
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HMS Fantome was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally a French privateer brig named Fantôme, which the British captured in 1810 and commissioned into British service. Fantome saw extensive action in the War of 1812 until she was lost in a shipwreck at Prospect, Nova Scotia, near Halifax in 1814.
The frigate Melampus was in company with the sloop Driver when they captured a French corvette brig letter of marque on 28 May 1810. The vessel was the Fantôme, pierced for 20 heavy carronades, and with a crew of 74 men. She had made three captures before Melampus captured her. One was the William, Hughes, master, which ad been sailing from Belfast to the Brazils. Fantôme took off dollars and goods, but then gave the brig up, which sailed on to Pernambuco.
After the Vice admiralty court condemned her in June 1810, the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Fantome. She was commissioned at Bermuda in 1811 under Commander John Lawrence.
She initially served on the North Sea station. On 12 November 1811 she sailed for Portugal. Fantome detained the Canton, Allen, master, and sent her into Lisbon where she arrived on 19 July 1812.
On 4 December 1812 Fantome sailed for North America.
In February 1813, during the War of 1812, Fantome joined a squadron off the American coast under the command of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, consisting of the 74-gun ships San Domingo, Marlborough and Dragon, and the frigates Maidstone and Statira. Fantome was among the vessels in the squadron that captured the enemy vessels Gustavus and Staunch on 24 February. Similarly, she shared in the capture of the Christiana (3 March) and Massasoit (14 March). However, prize money was not awarded until May 1818.
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