HMS Termagant (1796)
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| Name: | HMS Termagant |
| Ordered: | 24 January 1795 |
| Builder: | John Dudman, Deptford |
| Laid down: | May 1795 |
| Launched: | 23 April 1796 |
| Honours and awards: | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1] |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up on 3 February 1819 |
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| Tons burthen: | 4273⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Termagant was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1796 and performed convoy duty during the French Revolutionary Wars, shuttling between The Nore and Riga under Commander David Lloyd in mid-1797 in the company of HMS Clyde.[3]
On 1 September 1800, Termangant, Captain Skipsey, captured the French Navy polacca Capricieuse some 30 leagues west of Corsica after a two-hour chase. Capricieuse was armed with six guns and had a crew of 68 men under the command of enseigne de vaisseau Gandserrand. She was three days out of Toulon and was sailing to Egypt with 350 stand of arms, shot, a French general, and a Chef de Bataillon. She was also carrying dispatches, which however she was able to destroy before the British boarded her.[4][Note 1]
Three days later and some 10 leagues away, Termagant captured the privateer General Holtz, of two guns and 26 men. Skipsey scuttled and sank the privateer.[4]
On 12 January 1801, Termagant, Captain Skipsey, and Port Mahon, Captain Buchanan, captured the French Navy's half-xebec Guerrier. Guerrier was sailing from Toulon to Alexandria, Egypt, with a cargo of arms and ammunition.[6][Note 2]
Because Termagant served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 3]
Fate
Termagant was sold out of service in 1819.
Notes, citations, and references
- Notes
- ↑ Capricieuse was the tartane or aviso Caramagnole, launched at Toulon in July 1793 and renamed Capricieuse on 30 May 1795. She had originally been armed with two 12-pounder and two 6-pounder guns, and had an official complement of 35 men.[5]
- ↑ French records indicate that Toulon Dockyard had built the 4-gun Guerrier in 1800, and that she was commissioned there on 23 September 1800.[5] When captured she was in the Eastern Mediterranean and under the command of enseigne de vaisseau Vallat.[7]
- ↑ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[8]
- Citations
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
- ↑ Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817. p. 236.
- ↑ Barney, John. "North Sea and Baltic Convoy 1793-1814: As Experienced by Merchant Masters Employed by Michael Henley and Son". Mariner's Mirror 95 (4). doi:10.1080/00253359.2009.10657115.
- 1 2 The London Gazette: no. 15304. p. 1206. 21 October 1800.
- 1 2 Winfield and Roberts (2015 p. 296.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15358. p. 447. 25 April 1801.
- ↑ Fonds Marine, p.246.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 17915. p. 633. 3 April 1823.
- References
- Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations; divisions et stations navales; missions diverses). Inventaire de la sous-série Marine BB4. Tome premier : BB4 1 à 209 (1790-1804)
- Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. London: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042