HMS Persian (1809)
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| Name: | HMS Persian |
| Builder: | Daniel List, Cowes |
| Launched: | 1809 |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 26 June 1813 |
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| Class and type: | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 388 51⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 6 1⁄4 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Persian was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Daniel List and launched at Cowes in 1809. She captured two privateers before she wrecked in 1813.
She was commissioned under Commander Samuel Colquitt and spent her first year cruising in Channel. On 26 December 1809 recaptured the Thames. The next year, on 24 March, she sailed for the West Indies. Then on 1 October, she was in company with HMS Owen Glendower, when Owen Glendower captured the Indomptable and recaptured the Roden.
Colquitt received promotion to post captain on 21 October, the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. Her next captain was Commander Charles Bertram, who was appointed on 21 October.
On 5 April 1811, at 2pm, the signal station at Beachy Head signaled to Persian that a smuggling vessel was discharging her cargo nearby. Persian set out and after slmost eight hours she saw a lugger heading for France. Persian fired two or three broadsides as she chased the lugger and an hour later the lugger struck. She was the privateer Ambuscade under the command of Nicholas Augustine Briganda and had been out from Dieppe for some 40 hours. She was armed with 14 guns and carried a crew of 36, though she normally carried 63 men.Persian sent Ambuscade into Portsmouth.
On 13 February 1812 Persian, in company with Orestes, recaptured the Arcadia.Arcadia, Smiley, master, had been sailing from Nova Scotia to the Clyde when the French 14-gun privateer Gozelle [sic] captured her. After Persian recaptured Arcadia, Persian sent her into Dartmouth, where she on 15 February in a very leaky state and with only the mate, of her original crew, aboard.
On 3 March 1812 Persian recaptured the American brig Hannah. Hannah, of New York, had sailed from Savannah, with a cargo of timber when a French privateer captured her. After recapturing Hannah, Persian then set out to try to find the privateer, but without success. The French privateer cutter had taken Hannah on 1 March, and she arrived at Plymouth on 3 March, the same day that Persian had recaptured her.
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