HMS Julia (1806)
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| Name: | HMS Julia |
| Ordered: | 30 July 1805 |
| Builder: | Jabez Bailey, Ipswich |
| Laid down: | October 1806 |
| Launched: | 4 February 1806 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 1817 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 16-gun brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 284 26⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 0 1⁄2 in (3.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Sloop |
| Complement: | 95 |
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HMS Julia was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class launched in February 1806. After a fairly uneventful decade-long career she was wrecked at Tristan da Cunha in 1817 with heavy loss of life.
Commander Robert Yarker (occasionally mis-written as Tarker) commissioned Julia in February 1806 for the North Sea. He sailed her for the West Indies on 28 June 1807.
In March 1808 she was under the command of Commander John Ellis Watt, but one month later Commander was appointed to replace Watt. At the time Julia was in the Leeward Islands. After Netley capsized on 10 July, Julia rescued the nine survivors.
Watt still commanded Julia on 30 August when he captured a French lugger boat privateer, the Petit Decide, of Martinique. She had a crew of 22 men, armed with small arms, and was sailing from Guadeloupe to Marie-Galante with a howitzer, ammunition, and other stores for the troops there.
In November Commander Charles Kerr took command. Commander William Dowers replaced Kerr in 1809, who later was appointed to Wolverine on 11 December 1809.
On 21 May 1809, Julia and Unique were at Basse Terre as part of a squadron under Captain Philip Beaver of Acasta. They sighted a French schooner sheltering under the protection of some guns, and recognized the vessel as one that had sailed under their protection for several days while flying the Swedish flag. Beaver sent in Julia and Unique to try and cut her out, but she was stuck fast on shore. Lieutenant Thomas Fellowes, captain of Unique, then led a party of 24 men ashore to spike an enemy battery's guns despite being opposed by a large French regular force; in the attack one man was killed, a midshipman from Julia, and seven men were seriously wounded. Of the remaining men, all but Fellowes were at least lightly wounded; he was the only unwounded man to return from the raid.
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