HMS Sealark (1811)

Plans for HMS Sealark, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London[1]
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Sealark
Launched1811
AcquiredBy capture 1811
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Sealark 21 July 1812"[2]
FateSold 1820
General characteristics [3]
Type10-gun schooner
Tons burthen178 (bm)
Length
  • 79 ft 6 in (24.2 m) (overall);
  • 68 ft 0+78 in (20.7 m) (keel)
Beam22 ft 8 in (6.9 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 10 in (3.0 m)
Complement50
Armament10 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Sealark (or Sea Lark) was the American schooner Fly, launched in 1801 or 1811, that HMS Scylla captured in 1811. The Royal Navy took her into service as a 10-gun schooner. She participated in one notable single-ship action in 1812 that in 1847 the Admiralty recognized with a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal. She was sold in 1820.

Origins and capture

Most sources give Fly's launch year as 1811,[3] but not all.[4] On 29 December 1811 Scyllla captured Fly.[5] There being an HMS Fly in service, and the navy having lost its last HMS Sealark in 1809, Fly became HMS Sealark.

Royal Navy service

Lieutenant Thomas Warrand commissioned Sealark in May 1812 for the Lisbon station.[4][a]

Scylla and Sealark were in company on 9 June when they recaptured the San Antonio y Animas.[b]

Sealark's most tumultuous moment came on 21 July 1812. That morning, alerted by a shore signal of the presence of an enemy vessel, Warrand set out and within an hour discovered a large lugger flying English colours but chasing and firing at two West Indiamen sailing up the Channel. Sealark caught up with the lugger and eventually an intense engagement ensued that lasted for an hour and a half before a boarding party from Sealark captured the enemy vessel. She was the Ville de Caen, of sixteen guns and 75 men.[7] Lloyd's List reported that Ville de Caen carried eight 12-pounder and four other guns.[8] She belonged to Saint Malo but was just a day out of the Isle de Bas and had taken nothing; she was the same vessel that had fended off the lugger Sandwich at some earlier date.[7]

The engagement was sanguinary. Sealark had seven men killed, and 21 wounded, including Warrand. Ville de Caen had 15 men killed, including her captain, M. Cocket, and 16 wounded.[7] Lloyd's List reported the casualties as 13 killed and 16 wounded on Ville de Caen, and six killed and 18 wounded on Sealark. Sealark took Ville de Caen into Plymouth.[8][c]

Lloyd's Patriotic Fund awarded Warrand an honour sword worth 50 guineas.[10] In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Sealark 21 July 1812" to the four still surviving claimants from the action.

At the outbreak of the War of 1812, the Royal Navy seized a number of American ships that happened to be in British ports. Sealark was one of the 27 vessels that shared in the prize money from the detention of the Asia on 5 August.[d]

On 2 April 1813, Sealark captured the American ship Good Friends. At the time, Andromache was in company.[12] The privateer Cerberus was in sight.[13][e]

On 23 November Scylla recaptured the ship Harmony. Sealark and the cutter Surly were in sight.[15]

Lieutenant Philip Helpman replaced Warrand in August 1814.[3]

Then on 19 July 1815, Sealark was in company with Havannah, Rhin, Menelaus, Ferret and Fly when they captured the French vessels Fortune, Papillon, Marie Graty, Marie Victorine, Cannoniere, and Printemis.[f] The attack took place at Corrijou (Koréjou, east of Abervrach on the coast of Brittany), and during the action Ferret was able to prevent the escape of a French man-of-war brig that she forced ashore. Apparently, this cutting out expedition was the last of the war.[17]

Fate

Sealark was paid off in January 1819.[3] The Admiralty offered her for sale at Plymouth on 8 March 1819.[18] She was sold on 13 January 1820.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ For more on Thomas Warrand see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Warrand, Thomas" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
  2. ^ A first-class share of the prize money was worth £44 9ss 6d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seamen, was worth £1 5s 6d.[6]
  3. ^ French sources describe Ville de Caen as a 113 ton lugger built at Saint Malo circa 1811. She was pierced for 18 guns but carried sixteen 4 or 6-pounders and a complement of 33–75 men. She had been commissioned in March 1812 under Jean-Marie Crochet, who was killed in the action, which took place off Start Point.[9]
  4. ^ A first-class share of the prize money was worth £9 10s 10d; a sixth-class share was worth 2s 6d.[11]
  5. ^ Captain John Tregowith received a letter of marque on 13 January 1813 for the brig Cerberus, of 294 tons (bm), ten 9&4-pounder guns and six 18-pounder carronades, and 48 men.[14]
  6. ^ A first-class share of the prize money was worth £55 18s 4½d; a sixth-class share was worth 10s 10¾d.[16]

Citations

  1. ^ "Sealark' (1811) | Royal Museums Greenwich".
  2. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 244.
  3. ^ a b c d e Winfield (2008), p. 367.
  4. ^ a b "NMM, vessel ID 375247" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol iii. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  5. ^ "No. 16691". The London Gazette. 12 January 1813. p. 93.
  6. ^ "No. 16992". The London Gazette. 11 March 1815. p. 457.
  7. ^ a b c "No. 16626". The London Gazette. 25 July 1812. pp. 1441–1442.
  8. ^ a b "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4688. 28 July 1812. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105232920. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  9. ^ Demerliac (2003), p. 2117, no.2117.
  10. ^ Lloyd's Patriotic Fund,[1] - accessed 6 May 2016.
  11. ^ "No. 17229". The London Gazette. 11 March 1817. p. 614.
  12. ^ "No. 16807". The London Gazette. 16 November 1813. p. 2276.
  13. ^ "No. 16793". The London Gazette. 23 October 1813. p. 2104.
  14. ^ Letter of Marque (LoM),[2] Archived 9 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine – accessed 15 May 2011.
  15. ^ "No. 16856". The London Gazette. 12 February 1814. p. 341.
  16. ^ "No. 17229". The London Gazette. 11 March 1817. p. 613.
  17. ^ Stephen and Lee (1893), Vol. 35, p.403.
  18. ^ "No. 17454". The London Gazette. 27 February 1819. p. 3883.

References

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