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History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Forester
Ordered	26 May 1826
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	September 1930
Launched	28 August 1832
Fate	Sold in 1843
General characteristics
Type	Brig-sloop
Tons burthen	237 bm in Cherokee
Length	90 ft 0 in (27.43 m) (gundeck); 73 ft 7.625 in (22.44408 m) (keel);
Beam	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	75
Armament	2 × 6-pounder guns (bow) + 8 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Forester was a British Royal Navy 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop ordered on 23 May 1826, laid down in September 1830, and launched on 28 August 1832 at Chatham Dockyard. On 14 February 1833, she ran aground on a reef off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of a crew member. She was later refloated and towed by the paddle sloop-of-war HMS Rhadamanthus to Plymouth, Devon, England, where she was paid off in ordinary.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] She was sold in 1843.

Citations

^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 15093. London. 20 February 1833. col B, p. 6.
^ "PORTSMOUTH, Saturday, March 9". The Times. No. 15109. London. 11 March 1833. col E, p. 1.
^ "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 19808. 20 February 1833.
^ "THE LATE STORMS". Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet & Plymouth Journal. No. 1549. 2 March 1833.

Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.