HMS Savage (1805)
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| Name: | HMS Savage |
| Ordered: | 12 December 1804 |
| Builder: | Robert Adams, Chapel (Southampton) |
| Laid down: | April 1804 |
| Launched: | 30 July 1805 |
| Fate: | Sold 1819 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 16-gun brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 288 54⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 26 ft 7 1⁄2 in (8.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 0 in (3.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Sloop |
| Complement: | 95 |
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HMS Savage was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class of the British Royal Navy, launched in July 1805. She served during the Napoleonic Wars and captured a privateer. She grounded in 1814 but was salved. The Navy sold her in 1819.
Commander James Wilkes Maurice arrived in Liverpool on 3 August 1805 with dispatches after his courageous, though ultimately unsuccessful defence of Diamond Rock. The Admiralty greeted him warmly and within the month gave him the task of commissioning the newly launched sloop Savage for the Irish Station. While he was fitting her out at Portsmouth and assembling a crew, Admiral Lord Nelson met with Maurice and expressed his regrets that he had not been able to arrive in time to save Diamond Rock. However, Nelson expressed his admiration for Maurice's conduct and informed Maurice that at his, Nelson's, particular request, Maurice and Savage were to serve under Nelson's command. At the time Nelson was preparing to resume command of the Mediterranean fleet. Unfortunately, Maurice was not able to get Savage ready in time and so was not able to be present at the battle of Trafalgar.
Having missed the battle, Savage instead spent from December 1805 to June 1807 primarily in convoying vessels from various ports in the St George's Channel to The Downs, and back. During this service, Savage never lost a vessel.
Savage sailed with a convoy from Cork to Jamaica on 30 August 1807. There he served on the Jamaica station under Vice-Admiral Dacres. On 12 December, Savage captured the Spanish privateer Quixote off Porto Cavallo. Quixote carried eight guns and a crew of 99 men. She was "a Vessel of a large Class, and fitted out for the Annoyance of the Trade bound to [Jamaica]".
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