HMS Utile (1799)

HMS Utile was the French 16-gun privateer brig-sloop Utile launched in 1799 that the Royal Navy captured in 1799 and took into service; she foundered in the Mediterranean in 1801.

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

History
France
Name: Utile
Builder: Bordeaux
Launched: 1799
Captured: April 1799
Great Britain
Name: HMS Utile
Acquired: 1799 by capture
Commissioned: September 1801
Fate: Foundered November 1801
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen:
  • c.250[2]
  • 278​88⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • Overall:89 ft 6 in (27.3 m)
  • Keel:74 ft 0 1⁄2 in (22.6 m)
Beam: 26 ft 7 in (8.1 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft 10 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan: Brig-sloop
Complement:
  • French:120[3]
  • Royal Navy:76
Armament:

Utile was launched in 1799 and fitted at Bordeaux.[1]

On 1 April 1799, Boadicea captured the brig Utile. Utile was armed with sixteen 8-pounder guns, of which ten were brass. She had a crew of 120 men and was three weeks out of Bordeaux.[3]

Boadicea sent Utile into Portsmouth, where she arrived on 11 April. She sat there until May to October 1801, when she underwent fitting. Commander Edward Jekyll Canes commissioned her in September 1801 for the Mediterranean.[1]

Canes sailed from Portsmouth on the 20 October 1801 for the Mediterranean with details of the preliminaries of the peace treaty. Utile sailed from Gibraltar on 5 November with £27,000 pounds for the payment of the garrison at Minorca.[4] She was never seen again and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.[5]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Winfield (2008), p. 287.
  2. Demerliac (2004), p. 251, n°2156.
  3. "No. 15123". The London Gazette. 9 April 1799. p. 335.
  4. Naval Chronicle, Vol. 7, pp.172-3.
  5. Hepper (1994), p. 100.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-24-1.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
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