HMS Spartan (1806)
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| Name: | HMS Spartan |
| Ordered: | 24 August 1805 |
| Builder: | Charles Ross, Rochester, Kent |
| Laid down: | October 1805 |
| Launched: | 16 August 1806 |
| Completed: | 6 October 1806, at Chatham Dockyard |
| Fate: | Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard, April 1822 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Lively-class frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 1,071 51⁄94 tons bm (as designed) |
| Length: | 154 ft (47 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 5 in (12.01 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 284 (later raised to 300, then in 1813 to 320) |
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HMS Spartan was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, launched at Rochester in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars she was active in the Adriatic and in the Ionian Islands. She then moved to the American coast during the War of 1812, where she captured a number of small vessels, including a US Revenue Cutter and a privateer, the Dart. She then returned to the Mediterranean, where she remained for a few years. She went on to serve off the American coast again, and in the Caribbean, before being broken up in 1822.
Spartan's first captain was George Airie, but he was soon replaced by Captain Jahleel Brenton, who took Spartan to the Adriatic Sea for service in the Adriatic campaign. In May 1807, Spartan engaged Annibal, two frigates (Pomone and Incorruptible), and the corvette Victorieuse off Cabrera in the Mediterranean.
Spartan was very active in the region, attacking numerous French coastal convoys, towns and small warships and in 1809 was employed in attacks on the Ionian Islands, landing troops on Zante and Cerigo in successful amphibious operations. Spartan was in action with HMS Mercury and HMS Amphion at Pesaro on 23 April, and at Cesenatico on 2 May.
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