HMS Swallow (1805)
Fight between Renard and HMS Swallow. Drawing by Paris, engraving by Chabannes.
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| Name: | HMS Swallow |
| Ordered: | 27 November 1802 |
| Builder: | Benjamin Tanner, Dartmouth |
| Laid down: | May 1804 |
| Launched: | 24 December 1805 |
| Fate: | Broken up November 1815 |
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| Type: | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tonnage: | 386 50⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 8 in (9.35 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig rigged |
| Complement: | 121 |
| Armament: | 16 x 32-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder bow guns |
HMS Swallow was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in December 1805, nine months late. She served the Royal Navy through the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous privateers. After the end of the wars she was broken up in 1815.
Commander Alexander Milner commissioned Swallow in March 1806. On 30 October 1807 Swallow was in company with Plover some seven leagues NE of Scilly when Plover captured the French privateer lugger Bohemienne. Bohemienne was armed with two guns and had a crew of 44, 16 of whom were away as prize crews. She had sailed from Saint Malo two weeks earlier and had captured four British merchant sloops, the Hope, Favorite, and two others.
Then on 15 November Swallow captured another French two-gun privateer, the Friedland, seven or eight leagues south of The Lizard. Friedland had a crew of 41 men and had thrown her guns overboard during the chase. She was only a day out of Morlaix and had not captured anything.
On 14 June 1808 Swallow captured the Diana. Some 18 months later, on 7 November 1809, Swallow sailed for the Mediterranean.
Swallow was under the command of Commander John Bedford on 19 April 1810 when she captured the French privateer Général Ottaway. Général Ottaway was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 50 men.
On 14 June Cerberus was cruising in the Mediterranean in company with Active and Swallow. Together, the three British vessels captured three French gun-boats: Vincentina, Modanese and Elvetica (or Elvetria).
Swallow's next capture occurred on 7 June 1811, at which time she was under the command of Commander Edward Reynolds Sibly.Euryalus and Swallow sent their boats in pursuit of a French privateer off Corsica. After a long chase the boats captured Intrepide, which had a crew of 58 and was armed with two 8-pounders.
A month and a half later, on 26 July, Swallow captured the privateer Belle Genoise off Sicily. Belle Genoise was armed with two guns and had a crew of 37 men.
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