HMS Netley (1807)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Netley.

History
France
NameDéterminée
Acquired1803
Captured1807
United Kingdom
NameHMS Netley
Acquired1807 by capture
FateCapsized and sank 10 July 1808
General characteristics [1]
TypeBrig
Tons burthen150 (French; of load), or 1736⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 82 ft 10 in (25.2 m), or 25.3m
  • Keel: 58 ft 6 in (17.8 m)
Beam23 ft 7 in (7.2 m), or 7.1m
Depth of hold11 ft 4 in (3.5 m)
Complement
  • 108 (French privateer)
  • 65 (British service)
Armament
  • 14 guns (French privateer)
  • 14 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow guns (British service)

HMS Netley was originally the French privateer brig Déterminé, which the Royal Navy captured in 1807 and took into service. She was lost at sea on the Leeward Islands station in 1808.

French career and capture

Déterminé was a privateer brig commissioned in Bayonne in October 1803, that made her first cruise in October–November. She was recommissioned at Bordeaux circa 1805.[2]

Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 12 August 1806 that the French privateer Déterminée had captured Betsey, Selby, master, and sent her into Cayenne. Betsey had been sailing from the Cape Verde islands to Suriname, and the capture took place nearer to Surinam.[3]

Venus captured Déterminée, of Guadeloupe, on 18 January 1807 in the Atlantic Ocean 100 leagues (261 nmi; 300 mi; 483 km) east of Barbados after a chase of 16 hours. Déterminée was pierced for 20 guns but carried 14, and had a crew of 108 men.[4] Her captors took Déterminée into Barbadoes.[5]

The British took Déterminée into service as HMS Netley.

Fate

Netley was under the command of Lieutenant Charles Burman when she sank on 10 July 1808 when a squall caused her to capsize off Barbados. Of her crew of about 60 only a midshipman and eight crewmen survived until the 16-gun brig-sloop HMS Julia rescued them.[6]

Citations

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 349.
  2. ^ Demerliac (2004), p. 291, n°2358.
  3. ^ LL 12 August 1806, №4072
  4. ^ "No. 16014". The London Gazette. 23 March 1807. p. 394.
  5. ^ LL 27 March 1807, №4138.
  6. ^ Hepper (1994), p. 124.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.