HMS Manly (1812)
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| Name: | HMS Manly |
| Ordered: | 16 November 1811 |
| Builder: | Thomas Hills, Sandwich |
| Laid down: | February 1812 |
| Launched: | 13 July 1812 |
| Completed: | By 24 September 1812 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval general Service Medal with clasp "14 Dec. Boat Service 1814" |
| Fate: | Sold on 12 December 1833 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bold-class gun-brig |
| Tons burthen: | 181 60⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 22 ft 1 in (6.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 60 |
| Armament: | 10 x 18-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder bow chasers |
HMS Manly was a 12-gun Bold-class gun-brig of the Royal Navy launched in 1812. She served in the War of 1812, her boats participating in the Battle of Lake Borgne. She was sold in 1833.
Commissioned initially under Commander Edward Collier, she left Deal on 27 December 1812 and sailed to the Scheldt. On 23 March 1813, Manly sailed to the Americas. Here in June she chased, but lost, the privateer Young Teazer.
In the summer of 1813 Manly captured the ship Flor de Jago, of 164 tons, sailing from Lisbon to Boston. Then on 2 August she captured the brig Hope, sailing from Batavia to Providence.Manly was stranded at Halifax on 13 November 1813 but was salved after incessant labor over three weeks.
In early January 1814, Collier and his crew volunteered to reinforce the squadron on the Great Lakes, together with men from Fantome and Thistle. Seventy men left Halifax; they reached Kingston, Ontario on 22 March, having traveled some 900 miles in winter, almost entirely on foot.
After Collier left, Lieutenant Vincent Newton took command of Manly. In May he was promoted to Commander, but remained with her. In August 1814 she joined Captain Gordon of Seahorse and his small squadron. The squadron, without Manly destroyed shipping on the Potomac on 17 August. They then sailed up the Potomac to bombard Fort Washington while Vice-Admiral Alexander Cochrane landed the army at Benedict, Maryland on the Patuxent River on 19 and 20 August.
On 20 August the 40-gun fourth rate Endymion-class frigate Severn, the frigate Hebrus and Manly sailed up the Patuxent River to follow the boats as far as possible. Cochrane and his force of marines and seamen entered Washington on the night of 24 August. The British then burnt the White House, the Treasury and the War Office. They left at 9 o'clock in the evening of the next day and returned to Nottingham, Maryland on the Patuxent where Cochrane boarded Manly. The campaign cost the Navy one man killed and six wounded, including one man of the Corps of Colonial Marines killed and three wounded.
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