HMS Starr (1805)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Starr and HMS Meteor.
HMS Starr was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Tanner, of Dartmouth and launched on 26 July 1805. She was rebuilt as a bomb vessel in 1812 and renamed HMS Meteor. Under the command of Samuel Roberts, she was one of the bomb vessels involved in actions off the American coast in the War of 1812. She participated in the bombardment of Fort Washington, Maryland on the Potomac River in August 1814 and the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore. In January 1815 she also took part in the naval expedition that led to the Battle of New Orleans.
[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.
- Naval History of Great Britain
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