HMS Lively (1804)
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| Name: | HMS Lively |
| Ordered: | 15 October 1799 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Royal Dockyard |
| Laid down: | November 1801 |
| Launched: | 23 July 1804 |
| Commissioned: | July 1804 |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 20 August 1810 |
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| Class and type: | 38-gun Fifth rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 1075 90⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 154 ft 1 in (47.0 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 6 in (12.0 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 284 officers and men (later 300) |
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HMS Lively was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1804 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was the prototype of the Lively class of 18-pounder frigates, designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Rule. It was probably the most successful British frigate design of the Napoleonic Wars, to which fifteen more sister ships would be ordered between 1803 and 1812.
In October 1804, Lively was under the command of Captain (later Vice-Admiral Sir) Graham Eden Hammond.
On 5 October, a British squadron of four frigates, Lively, Medusa, Indefatigable and Amphion and, with Graham Moore as Commodore, Indefatigable, intercepted four Spanish frigates under the command of Rear-Admiral Don Joseph Bustamente, Knight of the Order of St. James, off Cadiz. As it transpired later, they were carrying bullion from Montevideo, South America to Spain. Spain was at the time a neutral country, but was showing strong signs of declaring war in alliance with Napoleonic France. Acting on Admiralty orders Moore required the Spaniards to change their course and sail for England. Admiral Bustamente refused and a short engagement ensued.
First, Mercedes blew up. Then Indefatigable captured Medée and Lively captured Clara. After a further chase, Lively and Medusa captured Fama.
Indefatigable had no casualties. Amphion had five men wounded, one badly. Lively had two killed and four wounded. Indefatigable and Amphion escorted Medée and Fama to Plymouth. Medusa and Lively brought in Clara. The Royal Navy took Medea into service as Iphigenia and Clara as Leocadia.
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