HMS Redbreast (1805)

HMS Redbreast was a 12 gun Archer-class brig of the British Royal Navy.[2]

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

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Redbreast
Builder: John Preston,[1] Great Yarmouth
Launched: 27 April 1805[2]
United Kingdom
Name: HMC Redbreast
In service: 1815[2]
Out of service: 1830[2]
General characteristics
Class and type: Brig
Tons burthen: 178 (bm)[2]
Armament: 12 guns[2]

She operated in the channel until 1808, when she took part in the Baltic expedition.[1] Detachments from her crew and other ships manned two gunboats in August 1808 on the Jade and Weser rivers where they captured a Danish privateer, Mosin, and a Dutch gunboat.[1] In 1811 she was part of a squadron sent to support a Russian attack on Fort Napoleon at Cuxhaven.[1] In 1814 the ship was rerated as a sloop, so that her captain since 1808, Sir George Mouat Keith, could continue to command her on his promotion from lieutenant to commander.[1]

In 1815 she was converted to a customs hulk,[2] and in 1830 a lazaretto for the Quarantine Service at Liverpool.[2] Redbreast was sold in 1850.[2]

Citations
  1. "HMS Redbreast". Age of Nelson. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  2. "HMS Redbreast". P. Benyon Naval Database. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
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