HMS Procris (1806)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Procris |
| Ordered: | 22 January 1806 |
| Builder: | Custance & Stone, Great Yarmouth |
| Laid down: | May 1806 |
| Launched: | 27 December 1806 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Java" |
| Fate: | Sold 1815 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 384 26⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 10 in (3.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
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HMS Procris was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807. She served at the second battle of Copenhagen. She then went out to the East Indies where she spent the rest of her active service, including participating in the 1811 invasion of Java. She returned to Britain in 1814 and was sold the next year.
Commander Francis Beauman commissioned Procris in March 1807 for service in the North Sea. She is listed among the vessels qualifying for prize money arising out of the battle of Copenhagen. On the way, Procris and Cherub detained the Danish ship Neptunus on 30 August.
Commander James M. Gordon replaced Beauman in October. He then sailed Procris for the East Indies on 18 December 1807. In February 1808 Commander Robert Maunsell replaced Beauman.
In the run-up to the British invasion of Java, on 14 July 1809 Procris encountered and destroyed the Dutch privateer Wagster.Wagster, a brig belonging to the Dutch East India Company, was armed with eight guns and four swivel guns, and had a crew of 86 men. The encounter took place off Batavia.
Then on 30 July Procris anchored at the mouth of Indramayo, following the orders of Captain George Sayer of the frigate Leda. At daylight Maunsell discovered six Dutch gun-boats in the river, each armed with a brass 32-pounder carronade forward, and a long 18-pounder aft, and carrying a crew of 60 men. They were protecting a convoy of 40 to 50 proas. As Procris moved towards them she quickly ran into shallower water and had to anchor at a range that left her cannon fire ineffective. Maunsell persisted in his attack using Procris's boats, as well as two flat boats that had accompanied him, each carrying an officer and 20 men from the 14th and 89th Regiments of Foot. During the British attack one of the Dutch gunboats blew up. The British captured the other five seriatim, all with a loss of only 11 men wounded, albeit some dangerously or badly, despite the heavy fire from the gunboats' cannons and small arms. During the attack the proas escaped up the river.
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