HMS Starr (1805)
The Bombardment of Fort McHenry, showing Royal Navy bomb vessels in action, including HMS Meteor (ex-Starr)
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| Name: | HMS Starr |
| Ordered: | 27 November 1802 |
| Builder: | Benjamin Tanner of Dartmouth |
| Laid down: | July 1804 |
| Launched: | 26 July 1805 |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 1805 at Plymouth |
| Renamed: | HMS Meteor in 1812 |
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| Fate: | Sold 16 October 1816 |
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| Class and type: | Merlin-class ship sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 365 32⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Starr was a 16-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Tanner, of Dartmouth, to plans by Sir William Rule, and launched in July 1805. As a sloop she served on convoy duty, though she also participated in the invasion of Martinique in early 1809. She was rebuilt as a bomb vessel in May 1812 and renamed Meteor. As Meteor she served in the Baltic and then off the United States, participating in attacks on up the Potomac and on Baltimore and New Orleans. She was sold in October 1816.
She was commissioned in October 1805 under Commander John Simpson. On 3 January 1806 she recaptured the ships Argo and Adventure, and shared in the recapture of the Good Intent.Starr was off Villa de Conde, Portugal, when she intercepted the vessels, which had been taken from a convoy that Mercury had been escorting from Newfoundland to Portugal, and both of which had been carrying cargoes of fish. Starr sighted Good Intent and signaled Mercury, which recaptured her too. On 5 February, Curieux captured the Baltidore, which was the privateer that had captured Good Intent.
Starr escorted a convoy to Newfoundland in August 1807 and another to the Leeward Islands in 1808. While briefly under Commander Francis Augustus Collier, she participated in the capture of Martinique in February 1809 where she landed in command of a detachment of seamen and marines. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique" to all surviving claimants from the campaign.
Between November 1811 and May 1812, Starr was rebuilt as a bomb vessel. She was then recommissioned, possibly in February 1812, as Meteor under Commander Peter Fisher. Her predecessor under the name Meteor, had been a bomb vessel too and had been sold in November.
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