HMS Liverpool (1814)
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| Name: | HMS Liverpool |
| Builder: | Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard, London |
| Laid down: | May 1813 |
| Launched: | 21 February 1814 |
| Commissioned: | May 1814 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 April 1816 |
| Recommissioned: | 1818 |
| Decommissioned: | January 1822 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1822 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Endymion-class frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate |
| Tons burthen: | 1246 86⁄94 bm |
| Length: | 159 ft (48 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Speed: | 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 300 |
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HMS Liverpool was a Royal Navy Endymion-class frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate. She was built by Wigram, Wells and Green and launched at Woolwich on 21 February 1814. She was built of pitch-pine, which made for speedy construction at the expense of durability.
Her major service was on the East Indies Station from where in 1819 she led the successful attack on the pirates based in Ras al-Khaimah. She was sold in 1822 but continued to operate in the Persian Gulf for an indefinite period thereafter.
Liverpool was commissioned under Captain Arthur Farquhar in May 1814. Her first commission was very brief, though. She escorted convoys to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Quebec. She then served at the Cape Station before returning to Deptford to be paid off on 3 April 1816. First, though, she captured the French schooner Circonstance on 21 October 1815. Circonstance was carrying 67 slaves.
In 1817 Liverpool was laid up at Deptford. Then in 1818, the Liverpool was re-commissioned under Captain Francis Augustus Collier.
He sailed her to join the East Indies Station, sailing via Mauritius and Trincomalee. While at Port Louis she captured four slave vessels. In the middle of 1819 she captured the Deux Amis (29 July), Constance (17 August) and Jenny (24 August). Bounty money was paid for the freed slaves.
Rear Admiral King appointed Captain Collier of Liverpool to command the naval portion of a joint navy-army punitive expedition against the pirates at Ras al-Khaimah in the Persian Gulf. The naval force consisted of Liverpool, Eden, Curlew, and a number of gun and mortar boats. The Bombay Marine of the East India Company contributed six armed vessels: the 16-gun Teignmouth under the command of Captain Hall, the senior captain, the 16-gun Benares, the 14-gun Aurora, the 14-gun Nautilus, the 12-gun Ariel and the 12-gun Vestal. Later several vessels belonging to the Sultan of Muscat joined the expedition. On the army side, Major General Sir William Keir commanded some 5,000 troops in transports.
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