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LEVERET

Built by:Wigram, Perry, Wells & Green at Blackwall.
Yard No.139
Launched:27th February 1808
Tonnage:237 47/94
Length:90 feet 3 inches
Breadth:24 feet 5 inches
Depth:9' 6"
Machinery:Sail
Decks:
Built of:Wooden
Type:Brig-Sloop - Cherokee class.
Registered:
Built for:H. M. Government.
Other info:Armament. 10 guns. = 2 x 6 pdrs, 8 x 18 pdrs carronades reduced to 6 guns for survey voyages.
Cost to build £3,761 + £158 extra.
Complement = 120 as a ship-of-war = 65 plus 9 supernumeraries on survey voyage.
History:1810. Commanded by Commander George Wickens Willes.
28th July 1811. Sailed from Yarmouth on a cruise.
22nd September 1811. Captured the French privateer ‘Prospere’.
29th September 1811. At Yarmouth.
14th October 1811. Sailed from Yarmouth on a cruise off the Dogger.
23rd October 1811. Arrived at Yarmouth from a cruise off the Dogger.
1st November 1811. Sailed from Yarmouth for the Baltic.
10th November 1811. Captured the French privateer ‘Dunkerquois’ in the North Sea.
12th November 1811. Sent into Yarmouth a large lugger privateer captured off the Dogger Bank.
13th November 1811. Arrived at Yarmouth with a sloop-rigged French privateer.
28th November 1811. Arrived at Yarmouth from a cruise off Flamboro’ Head.
25th December 1811. Sailed from Plymouth on a cruise.
20th April 1812. Arrived at Yarmouth from a cruise off the Dogger.
4th July 1812. Captured the French privateer ‘Brave’ in the North Sea.
16th July 1812. North-west of the island of Heligoland with the ‘Osprey’ and ‘Britomart’, and sent in the ship’s boats in chase of the French lugger privateer ‘Eole’, which was captured following a stiff resistance.
7th August 1812. Has captured and sent into Yarmouth the French lugger privateer ‘Le Brave’ of Calais.
14th October 1812. Sailed from Yarmouth for the Baltic.
25th December 1812. Arrived at Yarmouth from a cruise in the Sleeve.
2nd May 1813. Sailed from Yarmouth with the Heligoland convoy.
29th July 1813. Arrived at Yarmouth with a convoy from the Baltic.
12th September 1813. Arrived at Yarmouth.
26th December 1813. Sailed from Yarmouth with the ‘Bustler’ gun brig.
4th August 1814. Arrived at Deal from Gibraltar, and is under quarantine.
11th August 1814. Sailed from Deal for Portsmouth.
22nd September 1814. Remains at St. Helen’s with the Mediterranean convoy, wind bound.
28th September 1814. Sailed from Portsmouth with a convoy for Portugal, Spain and the South of France.
21st October 1814. Arrived at Deal from Lisbon.
26th October 1814. Sailed from Deal for Portsmouth.
27th October 1814. Arrived at Portsmouth.
11th November 1814. Sailed from Lisbon with a convoy of transports for Plymouth.
3rd January 1815. Sailed from Portsmouth with a convoy for Lisbon and the Mediterranean.
13th January 1815. Arrived at Lisbon from England.
4th May 1815. Arrived at Deal from the westward.
21st May 1815. Arrived at Deal from off Dieppe.
5th July 1815. Arrived at Deal from a cruise off the French coast.
26th July 1815. Remains in the Downs.
18th October 1815. Fitting for service at Plymouth for the Cape of Good Hope station.
13th September 1816. Anchored in the roads at Ascension Island.
25th July 1817. Remains at St. Helena.
1st November 1817. Remains at St. Helena.
14th June 1820. Sailed from St. Helena for Mauritius.
19th November 1820. Sailed from St. Helena.
25th November 1820. Sailed from Ascension.
13th January 1821. Arrived at Portsmouth.
1822. Disposed of.
1831. Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Frederick Lapidge, Coast of Portugal.
11th September 1835. Commanded by Lieutenant commander Charles John Bosanquet, Cape of Good Hope and south-east coast of Africa.
27th April 1839. Sailed from Mauritius.
10th May 1839. Sailed from Port Natal.
20th May 1839. Arrived at Simon’s Bay.
30th May 1839. Sailed from Simon’s Bay.
10th June 1839. Sailed from St. Helena.
29th July 1839. Arrived at Plymouth.
January 1840. Out of commission at Plymouth.



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