HMS Rosario (1800)
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Plan of HMS Rosario by John Marshall (Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1795-1801); National Maritime Museum
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 France
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| Name: | Hardi |
| Builder: | Bordeaux |
| Launched: | c. June 1796, or 1800 |
| Commissioned: | 1799 |
| Fate: | Captured 1800 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Hardi |
| Acquired: | by capture, 1800 |
| Renamed: | HMS Rosario in 1800 |
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| Type: | Sloop |
| Displacement: | 350 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 425 44⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 29 ft 11 3⁄4 in (9.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 6 1⁄2 in (4.1 m) |
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HMS Rosario was a 20-gun sixth rate of the British Royal Navy. She was previously the French privateer Hardi, which HMS Anson captured in 1800. The navy took her into service as HMS Hardi but renamed her HMS Rosario later in 1800. She was sold in 1809.
Hardi was a privateer corvette commissioned at Bordeaux. c. June 1796. She was commissioned as an armed merchantman in 1799, with 194 men and 18 guns.
At daybreak on 29 April 1800 HMS Anson encountered four French privateers: Brave (36 guns), Guepe (18), Hardi (18), and Duide (16). As soon as the French vessels realized that Anson was a British frigate they scattered. As Anson passed Brave going in the opposite direction Anson fired a broadside into her; Durham believed that the broadside did considerable damage, but he was unable to follow up as Brave had the wind in her favour and so outsailed Anson. Durham then set off after one of the other French vessels, which he was able to capture. She was Hardi, of 18 guns and 194 men. Durham described her as "a very fine new Ship just of the Stocks." The Royal Navy took Hardi into service, first as HMS Hardi, before shortly thereafter renaming her HMS Rosario. Lastly, Durham reported sending into port for adjudication a very valuable ship that had been sailing from Batavia to Hamburg with the Governor of Batavia as passenger.
Lloyd's List reported on 13 May 1800 that the "Hardy French Privateer, of 20 Guns and 150 men", had arrived at Plymouth.
On 30 August 1801 Commander Richard Byron, "nephew of the late Admiral Byron, commissioned in Hamoaze, that beautiful corvette, La Rosario, of 18 guns." Then on 28 October "Diable in Quatre" (Imogen) and Rosario came into Plymouth Sound.
Byron sailed Rosario to the West Indies where she served on the Jamaica station. Byron's role was to observe the fleet that France had sent to assist General Charles Leclerc in his efforts to recapture Saint-Domingue (Haiti). (Leclerc attempted to reassert control over a slave rebellion, and eventual captured and deported Toussaint L'Ouverture.)
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