HMS Lively (1794)
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| Name: | HMS Lively |
| Ordered: | 14 February 1793 |
| Builder: | John Nowlan, Northam |
| Laid down: | April 1793 |
| Launched: | 23 October 1794 |
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| Fate: | Wrecked, subsequently burnt April 14th, 1798 |
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| Class and type: | 32-gun Alcmene-class fifth rate |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Tonnage: | 805 85⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 36 ft 8 1⁄2 in (11.189 m) |
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| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 241; 254 post-1796 |
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HMS Lively was a 32-gun fifth-rate Alcmene-class frigate of the British Royal Navy launched on 23 October 1794 at Northam, Devon. She took part in three actions that would in 1847 qualify for the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal, one a single-ship action, one a major battle, and one a cutting-out boat expedition. Lively was wrecked in 1798.
Lively was commissioned in October 1794 under Captain Viscount Lord Garlies. On 4 March 1795 she captured the French corvette Espion about 13 leagues off Ushant. Espion was armed with eighteen 6-pounder guns and had a crew of 140 men. She was five days out of Brest on a cruise. Captain George Burlton, acting in the absence of Lord Garlies, who was sick on shore, commanded Lively. Four days later Lively recaptured the ship Favonius.
On 13 March 1795 she captured the French corvette Tourtourelle. Lively sighted three vessels and headed for the larger one, which tacked to meet her. After three hours of exchanging fire the French vessel was so disabled that she struck. She turned out to be the 28-gun corvette Tourtourelle, under the command of Captain Guillaume S. A. Montalan. She had lost 16 men killed and 25 wounded; Lively had only two men wounded. The British took Tourtourelle into service as HMS Tourterelle. The Admiralty would recognize the action in 1847 with the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Lively 13 March 1795".
Lively also captured the other two vessels that Tourterelle had been escorting. They had been prizes to Espion.
Lively was present at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent under the command of Captain Lord Garlies. She and three other British frigates jointly fired on a Spanish ship-of-the-line that had gotten separated from the rest, but other than that Lively took no significant part in the combat and suffered no losses. Her main function was to repeat signals. She did take possession of the San Ysidro (or San Isidro), one of the Spanish vessels that surrendered. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the NGSM with clasp "St. Vincent" to the 348 surviving claimants from the battle.
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