HMS Fly (1813)

History
Name: HMS Fly
Builder: Jabez Bailey, Ipswich
Launched: 1813
Commissioned: 1813
Decommissioned: 1828
Fate: Sold, 1828
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen: 386 ​77⁄94 (bm)
Length: 100 ft 5 in (30.6 m) o/a; 77 ft 9 in (23.7 m) (keel)
Beam: 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m)
Draught: 7 ft 7 in (2.3 m) (unladen); 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) (laden)
Sail plan: Brig
Complement: 121
Armament:
  • 16 × 32-pounder carronades
  • 2 × 6-pounder bow guns

HMS Fly (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched in 16 February 1813 and commissioned May 1813.[1]

She served:[1]

  • on the Channel station under Sir William G. Parker from May 1813,[2]
  • on the Newfoundland Station from June 1814 until paid off in April 1815,
  • on the Cork station, after recommissioning in 1818, until December 1821,
  • on Cape of Good Hope Station from December 1821,
  • in South America from 1823,
  • in East Indies from 1825.

In December 1826 Fly, under Captain F. A. Wetherall,[3] supported the short-lived settlement of Western Port, in southern Victoria, Australia.[4]

She was sold in Bombay on 10 April 1828.[1]

See also

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Winfield (2008), Chapter 8
  2. ↑ A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parker, William George
  3. ↑ A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wetherall, Frederick Augustus
  4. ↑ HRA, Series 3, Volume 5, pp 827ff
  5. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
  • Historical records of Australia. Series 3. Despatches and Papers Relating to the Settlement of the States Volume 5. Tasmania, December, 1825-March, 1827. Northern Territory, 1823–1827. Western Port, Victoria, 1826–1827, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, Commonwealth of Australia, 1922, hdl:1959.9/512894
  • "Martin, William Fanshawe (DNB01)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Wikisource link to Parker, William George". Wikisource link to A Naval Biographical Dictionary. John Murray. Wikisource. 
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Wikisource link to Wetherall, Frederick Augustus". Wikisource link to A Naval Biographical Dictionary. John Murray. Wikisource. 


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