HMS Hecate (1809)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Hecate |
| Namesake: | Hecate |
| Builder: | John King, Upnor |
| Launched: | 1809 |
| Commissioned: | 1809 |
| Decommissioned: | 1817 |
| Honors and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Java" |
| Fate: | Sold, October 1817 |
 Chile
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| Name: | Galvarino |
| Namesake: | Galvarino |
| Acquired: | 1818 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1828 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 384 70⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 100 ft 6 in (30.6 m) o/a; 770 ft 4 in (234.8 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 6 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Hecate was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built by John King at Upnor and launched in 1809. After serving in the British Navy, essentially entirely in the East Indies, she served in the Chilean Navy as Galvarino from 1818 until she was broken up in 1828.
Hecate was commissioned in 1809 under Commander William Buchanan. Commander Edward Wallis Hoare replaced him in October and sailed for the East Indies on 31 October.
In 1810, Lieutenant George Rennie became acting commander and Hecate was detailed for service with the squadron under Admiral Albemarle Bertie engaged in the Invasion of Île de France.
In 1811 Hecate was under Commander Thomas Graham until July, when Commander Henry John Peachey assumed command. From 3 August she was part of the fleet involved in the invasion of Java, which ended with the surrender of Dutch and French forces on 16 September. For this service all of her crew who had survived to 1847 and chose to were entitled to claim the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Java". In 1815 Hecate also shared in the prize money arising out of the invasion.
Peachey was promoted to post-captain on 7 August 1812 and removed to Malacca. Lieutenant William Case may have followed Peachey as acting commander, but then the newly promoted Commander Case took command of Samarang, and Commander Joseph Drury transferred from Samarang to Hecate. At some point in 1812 pirates from the Sultanate of Sambas, in western Borneo, captured nine sailors from Hecate and killed or enslaved them, after cutting their hamstrings or otherwise mutilating them. In June 1813 Hecate participated in a punitive expedition against the Sultanate of Sambas.
Hecate sailed for Madras in January 1814 and her next commander, from 4 February 1814, was Commander John Allen. On 20 November 1815 command passed to John Reynolds.
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