HMS Advice (1779)

HMS Advice was a 10-gun cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1779. She was wrecked in 1793.

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

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Advice
Acquired:	1779
Fate:	Wrecked on 1 June 1793
General characteristics
Class and type:	10-gun cutter
Tons burthen:	95 ​^28⁄94 (bm)
Length:	56 ft (17.1 m) (overall) 38 ft 2 in (11.6 m) (keel)
Beam:	21 ft 8 in (6.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Complement:	45
Armament:	10 × 3-pounder guns 10 × ½-pounder swivel guns

Career

Advice was fitted out at Deptford for the sum of £801 between 7 April and 19 May 1780. She was commissioned in May under Lieutenant John B. Swan (or Swann),[1] who commanded her in the English Channel and then the North Sea. Later in the year Advice lost her boat, which she was towing because it was too big too hoist on deck.[2]

Lieutenant Thomas Dyson took command in May 1781, and remained Advice's commander until she was paid off in September that year. In 1782 Lieutenant Edward Williams took command for the North Sea.[1] He paid her off in 1782/83, but then recommissioned her in 1783 for the south and west Irish coasts. He paid her off again in December 1786.[1]

In 1787 her commander was Lieutenant Edward Williams.[3] A great repair was carried out at Portsmouth, after which she recommissioned in December 1789 under Lieutenant Henry Wray. Wray sailed her to Jamaica on 5 February 1790.[1] At some point in 1792 she came under the command of Lieutenant (acting) William McGuire.[4]

After two years service in Jamaican waters she was put up for sale on 22 November 1792. She was subsequently withdrawn from sale, registered as a schooner on 3 January 1793, but was sold on 6 March 1793.

Fate

She made a brief return to service under Lieutenant Edward Tyrell.[Note 1] However, she was wrecked to leeward of Key Bokell (southern tip of the Turneffe Atoll), Honduras on 1 June 1793. Her crew was saved. Tyrell and his crew were all acquitted of the loss at the subsequent court martial.[6]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

1. The National Maritime Museum lists this as a separate vessel built in 1792 and serving until 1793, though on the lists until 1799.[5]

Citations

1. "NMM, vessel ID 379444" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol i. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
2. May (1999), p.32.
3. Marshall (1832), Vol. 3, Part 2, p. 262.
4. Gentleman's magazine, Vol. 182, p.318.
5. "NMM, vessel ID 379445" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol i. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
6. Gossett (1986), p.1.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London: Mansell). ISBN 0-7201-1816-6
• Marshall, John (1823-1835) Royal naval biography, or, Memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers, superannuated rear-admirals, retired-captains, post-captains, and commanders, whose names appeared on the Admiralty list of sea officers at the commencement of the present year 1823, or who have since been promoted ... (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown).
• May, Commandeer W. E. May, with Simon Stephens (1999) The boats of men of war. (Anaapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press). ISBN 1-55750-190-4
• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-295-X.

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