HMS Nimrod (1812)
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| Name: | HMS Nimrod |
| Ordered: | 26 September 1811 |
| Builder: | Jabez Bailey, Ipswich |
| Laid down: | November 1811 |
| Launched: | 25 May 1812 |
| Fate: | Sold 1827 |
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| Acquired: | 1827 by purchase |
| Fate: | No longer listed in Lloyd's Register after 1851 |
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| Class and type: | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tonnage: | 38422⁄94, or 369; 469 after 1827 lengthening (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 10 in (3.91 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Nimrod was a brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1812. She spent her war years in north American waters where she captured one small privateer, assisted in the capture of another, and captured or destroyed some 50 American vessels. After the war she captured smuggles and assisted the civil authorities in maintaining order in Tyne. She was wrecked in 1827 and so damaged that the Navy decided she was not worth repairing. A private ship-owner purchased Nimrod and repaired her. She then went on to spend some 20 years trading between Britain and Charleston, the Mediterranean, Australia, and India. She was last listed in 1851.
Commander Nathaniel Mitchel commissioned Nimrod in August 1812. He then sailed her for North America on 22 September. On 4 January 1813 she was at 25°45′N 56°14′W / 25.750°N 56.233°W while sailing from Nefoundland to Bermuda.
On 12 or 15 March 1813, Nimrod captured the American "private ship of war" Defiance off Morant Bay, Jamaica, and sent her into Port Royal, Jamaica.
Maidstone, Sylph, and Nimrod captured the brig Victor, of 52½ tons (bm), Swedish lasts, Carl Fred Hallberger, master, on 13 May. She had been sailing from Haiti to New London with 140 hhds. of sugar.
On 11 August, Nimrod captured the ship Republican, A. Baupen, master, which was sailing from New York to Port au Prince. She was carrying provisions, lumber, tobacco, fruit and dry goods.
On 17 July Maidstone, with Poictiers and Nimrod in company, captured the American privateer Yorktown, of 20 guns and 140 men, after a four-hour chase. Yorktown, under Captain T. W. Story, had taken 11 prizes before Maidstone captured her. The British sent Yorktown and her crew into Halifax.
Poictiers, in company with Maidstone and Nimrod, captured several vessels.
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