HMS Dauntless (1808)
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| Name: | HMS Dauntless |
| Builder: | Deptford Dockyard |
| Launched: | 20 December 1808 |
| Commissioned: | July 1809 |
| Decommissioned: | October 1823 |
| Fate: | Sold 1825 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cormorant-class sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 422 tons |
| Length: | 108 ft 4 in (33.0 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 7 in (9.0 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Ship |
| Complement: | 121 |
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[edit] History
The second HMS Dauntless was a sixth rate sloop of the Royal Navy armed with 24 carronades and two 6-pounder guns.
She was built in Deptford Dockyard as a Cormorant-class sloop. Her first service was in November 1809 when she escorted a convoy to the African coast, returning in early 1810 to cruise against enemy shipping in the North Sea and to escort convoys to North Russia. In the autumn of 1811 she was sent to the Cork Station, and after refitting at Portsmouth in early 1814 she served on the Newfoundland Station. In January 1816, as the Royal Navy contracted after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, she paid off at Portsmouth.
In November 1818 she was recommissioned for service in the East Indies. Over the next 5 years Dauntless visited China, New Zealand, South America, the Pacific archipelagos and New South Wales. Her Captain, George Gambier, in company with members of the Philosophical Society of Australasia fixed a suitably engraved bronze tablet on a "beetling rock" on the south head of Botany Bay to commemorate the first landing of Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks in Australia in 1770. The tablet has not been seen for some years. Dauntless sailed through Torres Strait to Trincomalee to rejoin the fleet, and returned to Portsmouth to pay off in October 1823. She was sold for breaking in 1825.
[edit] Commanding Officers
| 1809 | Lt Whitman RN (died on the African Station) |
| 2 May 1810 | Lt Daniel Barber RN |
| November 1818 | Captain Hon. Valentine Gardner RN |
| June 1821 - October 1823 | Captain George Cornish Gambier RN |
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Age of Nelson website - Age of Nelson
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