HMS Manly (1804)
Configuration of typical brig
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Manly |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Ordered: | 9 January 1804 |
| Builder: | John Dudman & Co, Deptford Wharf |
| Laid down: | February 1804 |
| Launched: | 7 May 1804 |
| Commissioned: | May 1804 |
| Captured: | January 1806 |
 Batavian Republic
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| Name: | unknown |
| Acquired: | by capture January 1806 |
| Captured: | 1 January 1809 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Manly |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Acquired: | by capture 1 January 1809 |
| Captured: | 2 September 1811 |
 Denmark & Norway
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| Name: | HDMS The Manly |
| Acquired: | 2 September 1811 by capture |
| Fate: | captured March 1813 or sold October 1813 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Bold |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Acquired: | March or November 1813 |
| Fate: | Sold 11 August 1814 |
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| Class and type: | Archer-class gun-brig |
| Tons burthen: | 177 79⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft 5 1⁄2 in (2.883 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 50 |
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HMS Manly was an Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804. During her career first the Dutch captured her, then the British recaptured her, then the Danes captured her, and finally the British recaputred her again. The British renamed her HMS Bold after her recapture in 1813. She was sold out of service in 1814.
She was commissioned in May 1804 under Lieutenant George Mackay. In 1805 she cruised off Boulogne.
In January 1806, while under the command of Lieutenant Martin White, she grounded off Rysum, in the River Ems, East Friesland. When White went ashore to supervise attempts to pull her off, a party of Dutchmen from a schuyt landed and captured him.Manly's master, William Golding, decided to surrender her. Dutch gun-boats then captured her. The subsequent court martial stripped Golding of his rank for conduct unbecoming an officer and ordered him to serve a two-year term as a seaman. The board also reprimanded White for not having lightened Manly before trying to pull her off.
The Dutch Naval Department held a meeting on 31 December 1805 during which it discussed a report from 25 December by First Lieutenant IJsbrands of the gunboat Vos, who commanded the Dutch vessels serving off Delfzijl. On December IJsbrands had encountered a boat from the galley Noodweer off the Knock that reported that they had approached a brig that had run ashore. It was flying an American flag but appeared to be British. The brig had detained L. Abrahams, the Noodweer's pilot.
IJsbrands sailed back to Delfzijl where he gathered reinforcements from the Noodweer. He then sailed towards the reported location of the brig. On the way he met a boat carrying Lieutenant Martin White, boatswain Peter Graij, gunner James Robinson and sailors Robert Telford and John Wilcolf, whom he arrested and sent to Delfzijl. First though, White requested that he be allowed to retrieve his clothes and money. However, as Vos approached the brig, the British crew fired on her.
At Delfzijl IJsbrands mustered three galleys and on 21 December sent them to deal with the brig. Due to contrary winds the galleys did not reach the brig until 22 December. At that time they discovered that she was the Manly, but that there was no trace of the crew.
To date, no records of her service under the Batavian Republic have emerged.
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