HMS Sophie (1809)
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| Name: | HMS Sophie |
| Ordered: | 21 November 1808 |
| Builder: | John Pelham, Frindsbury |
| Laid down: | December 1808 |
| Launched: | 8 September 1809 |
| Completed: | By 23 December 1809 |
| Fate: | Sold on 15 August 1825 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 387 40⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 8 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Brig-sloop |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Sophie was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She served during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During the War of 1812 Sophie participated in the economic war against American trade, capturing or destroying numerous small merchant vessels, and in an unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer, Alabama. Later, she moved to the East Indies where she served in the First Anglo-Burmese War. The Admiralty sold Sophie in 1825.
Sophie was launched and completed in 1809. She commissioned under Commander Nicholas Lockyer in October that year. Lockyer was to command her for the next five years.
Initially, Sophie served out of Portsmouth. On 30 November 1810 Sophie recaptured the ship Fountain, which a privateer had captured. Fountain, Walker, master, had been sailing from Quebec to Lynn. She arrived at Ramsgate on 1 December.
On 14 August Sophie accompanied Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, who was sailing to Halifax, Nova Scotia, on San Domingo, together with Poictiers, Magnet, and Mackerel. Magnet disappeared during the voyage and was presumed foundered with all hands. Sophie went on to have an active career taking prizes and operating against American privateers during the War of 1812.
On 31 August 1812 she captured the merchant vessel Alexander, and on 25 November the brig Experience from Rio and bound for Boston.Sophie sent Experience (or Experiment) into Bermuda.
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