HMS Firebrand (1804b)

HMS Firebrand was the mercantile schooner Lord Lennox, a French prize taken in 1799 and renamed. In 1803 her master and owner was J.S.Lloyd, and her trade was London—Rouen. She had undergone a good repair in 1799..[3]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Firebrand.
History
Great Britain
Name: Lord Lennox
Acquired: 1799 as a prize[1]
Fate: Sold 1804
UK
Name: HMS Firebrand
Acquired: 1804 by purchase
Fate: Sold 1807
United Kingdom
Name: Lord Lennox
Acquired: 1807 by purchase
Fate: Last listed 1815
General characteristics [2]
Type: Schooner[3]
Tons burthen: 72,[3] or 73,[4] or 90[1] (bm)
Length: 55 ft 6 in (16.9 m) (overall); 40 ft 6 in (12.3 m) (keel)
Beam: 18 ft 5 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 1810: 2 × 3-pounder guns

The Royal Navy purchased her in 1804 for use as a fire ship but sold her in 1807.[2]

Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Firebrand and several other vessels for sale on 17 March 1807 at Sheerness.[5]

Her purchasers returned her to her prior name. Lord Lennox re-entered Lloyd's Register in 1808 with Whiteside, master, Hedgecock, owner, and trade London–Cadiz.[4] She then traded between London and Lisbon and was last listed in the Register of Shipping in 1815.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1810 A.Grieg Hedgecock London–Lisbon Register of Shipping
1815 A.Grieg Hedgecock London–Lisbon Register of Shipping

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Lloyd's Register (1801), sup. Seq.№L62.
  2. Winfield (2008), p. 380.
  3. Lloyd's Register (1804), Seq.№L398.
  4. Lloyd's Register (1808), Supple.pages "L" Seq.№104.
  5. "No. 16035". The London Gazette. 6 June 1807. p. 765.

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1861762467.
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