HMS Nimrod (1799)
| History | |
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 France
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| Name: | Éole |
| Namesake: | Aeolus |
| Builder: | Bordeaux |
| Commissioned: | September 1799 |
| Fate: | Captured 1799 |
 UK
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| Name: | HMS Nimrod |
| Acquired: | 1799 by capture |
| Fate: | Sold 1811 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Nimrod |
| Acquired: | 1811 by purchase |
| Fate: | Last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1820. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 300 (tons; French) |
| Tons burthen: | 341, 342, 345, 395, or 398 by calc. (bm) |
| Length: | 30.9 metres (101 ft) |
| Beam: | 8.9 metres (29 ft 2 in) |
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| Armour: | Timber |
Éole was an 18-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched, captured, and later commissioned in the Royal Navy in 1799 as HMS Nimrod after her capture by HMS Solebay. She was then "the finest and most handsome ship-sloop in the British navy". She was sold in 1811. She made three whaling voyages between 1811 and 1819. On her first she captured several American whalers. Nimrod was last listed in 1820.
Built in Bordeaux as a privateer corvette, Éole was requisitioned and brought into service in the French Navy in September 1799, and commissioned in Rochefort. HMS Solebay captured her at Saint Domingue on 23 November 1799. She was one of a squadron of four French vessels, all four of which Solebay captured that day. Éole was described as being of 300 tons, carrying 16 guns, and having a crew of 125 men. She was coming from Cape François and was believed to be sailing to Jacquemel.
The Vice admiralty court at Jamaica condemned her. The Royal Navy then took her into service as HMS Nimrod.
At some point between 28 February and 20 May 1800, Nimrod captured the Spanish felucca Victoria, which was sailing from Tobasco to Jamaica with a cargo of specie, logwood, and cochineal. It is not clear who her commander was while she was in the Caribbean.
Between 21 May and 8 August, Nimrod, Crescent, and Meleager captured two Spanish vessels: a Spanish felucca that was sailing from Havanah to Vera Cruz, and a xebec sailing from Campeachy to Havana.Nimrod and Crescent also captured or detained three other Spanish vessels: a felucca carrying wax, a xebec carrying hides and leather, and a schooner sailing from Saint Domingo to Curacoa carrying mahogany.
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