HMS Undaunted (1807)
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| Name: | HMS Undaunted |
| Ordered: | 7 November 1803 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down: | April 1806 |
| Launched: | 17 October 1807 |
| Completed: | 2 December 1807 |
| Commissioned: | October 1807 |
| Decommissioned: | October 1815 |
| Recommissioned: | August 1827 |
| Decommissioned: | February 1834 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1860 |
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| Class and type: | Lively-class frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 1,086 tons bm |
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| Beam: | 39 ft 7 in (12.07 m) |
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| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 284 |
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HMS Undaunted was a Lively-class fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the island of Elba in early 1814.
The sixteen ships of the Lively-class were based on a design dating from 1799 by William Rule, the Surveyor of the Navy, and were probably the most successful British frigate design of the time. Undaunted was originally ordered on 7 November 1803 from Joseph Graham at Harwich, but he went bankrupt, and the contract was transferred to Woolwich Dockyard on 6 January 1806. The keel was laid down in April 1806 under the supervision of naval constructor Edward Sison. Undaunted was launched on 17 October 1807, and completed on 2 December 1807 at a total cost of £36,967.
Captain Thomas James Maling was appointed to command her on 27 October 1807. The ship served in the West Indies and the English Channel, and was for a time in early 1810 engaged in the defence of Cádiz.
During this time she made two notable captures; on 29 February 1808 the Spanish ship Nostra Senora del Carmen, alias La Baladora, and on 12 February 1809, the French privateer San Josephe in the Channel. Undaunted discovered San Josephe at dawn, taking her after a chase lasting four hours, and brought her into Spithead the next day. The privateer, which was only four days out from St. Malo, was provisioned for two months and pierced for 18 guns, but mounted only 14, with a crew of 96. The Royal Navy took San Josephe into service as Magnet.
In June 1810 command of the ship passed from Captain Maling to Captain George Charles Mackenzie. On 30 August 1810 she sailed with a convoy for Malta. Under Captain Mackenzie her career appears to have been less eventful, but on 17 February 1811 Undaunted did recapture the transport ship Dorothy just before command passed to Captain Richard Thomas. Under Captain Thomas, Undaunted was sent to the Mediterranean, where she was first employed in co-operating with Spanish guerillas on the coast of Catalonia, and later at the blockade of Marseille, and was for a time the flagship of the small squadron blockading Toulon. On 29 April 1812 the boats of Undaunted, the frigate Volontaire, and the sloop Blossom attacked a convoy of 26 French vessels near the mouth of the river Rhone. Led by Lieutenant Eagar of Undaunted, they captured seven vessels, burned twelve, and left two grounded on the beach. A French Navy schooner armed with four 18-pounders and a crew of 74 was among the vessels burnt. The attack was carried out without loss, being protected by Captain Stewart in Blossom. Captain Thomas was eventually invalided home, and command of Undaunted passed to Captain Thomas Ussher on 2 February 1813.
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