HMS Peruvian (1808)
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| Name: | HMS Peruvian |
| Builder: | Parson's Yard, Warsash |
| Launched: | 1808 |
| Commissioned: | May 1808 |
| Decommissioned: | July 1816 |
| Fate: | Broken up, February 1830 |
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| Class and type: | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 384 bm |
| Length: | 100 ft 6 in (30.63 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Peruvian was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1808 at Parson's Yard, Warsash, England. She was the first naval vessel built at that yard. Peruvian captured two American privateers and participated in an expedition up the Penobscot River during the War of 1812. Then she claimed Ascension Island for Great Britain in 1815. She was broken up in 1830.
Commander Francis Douglas commissioned her in May 1808 for the Downs. Douglas had been first lieutenant of HMS Repulse (1780) at the mutiny at The Nore in 1797.
On 19 February 1809 Peruvian was in company with the sloop Osprey when Osprey captured the Vrouw Gesina. In May Peruvian captured the Commerce, Rook, master, and sent her into The Downs.
Then on 14 January 1810 Peruvian sailed for the Leeward Islands. Three days later Peruvian was in sight, and so entitled to share, together with a number of other vessels, in the prize money arising from the recapture of the Toms by Hyperion. In November 1810 Commander Francis Dickinson took command, but he died on 23 April 1812.
In 1812 Peruvian was under Lieutenant Amos F. Westropp, in the West Indies. He was promoted to Commander in August. On 12 October 1812, Peruvian captured the sloop Prevyonte. Twelve days later Peruvian captured the American privateer schooner Yankee off Sombrero, Anguilla. Yankee had 7 guns and a crew of 44 men. She was 38 days out of Salem, but had made no captures.Peruvian sent Yankee into Antigua. American records state that the privateer was Yankee American, 77 tons burthen, T. Pillsbury, master.
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