HMS Dover (1811)
{{other ships|HMS Dover}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = Battle of Lissa, 1811 RCIN 735160.c.jpg | Ship caption = An illustration of the Battle of Lissa, including Bellona (far left) }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Kingdom of Italy | Ship flag= {{flagdeco|Napoleonic Italy}} | Ship name = Bellona | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Andrea Salvini, Venice | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = 22 April 1807 | Ship launched = 14 June 1808 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship captured = 13 November 1811 | Ship fate = | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|UKGBI|naval}} | Ship name = HMS Dover | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = 1811 by capture | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Sold 21 January 1836 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = {{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=216}}{{sfnp|Winfield|Roberts|2015|p=181}} | Ship class = | Ship tons burthen= 692 (bm) | Ship length = *Overall: {{cvt|131|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{cvt|34|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship hold depth = {{cvt|8|ft|11|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion = | Ship sail plan = | Ship complement = *At capture:224
| Ship armament = *At capture: 24 × 12-pounder guns + 8 × 6-pounder guns (or carronades)
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HMS Dover was a 38-gun troopship, previously the Italian corvette Bellona, launched at Venice in 1808. She was captured at Lissa in 1811. She served as a troopship and transport until circa 1819. She then became the flagship for the Admiral commanding the Leith station. She was used for harbour service from 1825, and was sold in 1836.
Corvette ''Bellona''
Lieutenant de vaisseau Duodo commissioned Bellone in 1810. Between 22 February and 7 March 1810 she underwent coppering.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=71–72}}
{{HMS|Amphion|1799|6}}, which was under the command of Captain William Hoste, the commander of a British squadron, captured Bellona on 3 March 1811 at the Battle of Lissa. Hoste reported that Bellona was under the command of M. Didon.{{London Gazette|date=14 May 1811 |issue=16485 |page=893–394}} Actually, Bellona{{'}}s captain was Giuseppe Duodo, who was killed during the battle; Bellona had suffered some 70 casualties.
HMS ''Dover''
Bellona arrived at Deptford in September. She was fitted as a troopship between March and July 1812 while at Deptford. Although a key reference states Dover was never commissioned,{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=216}} that appears incorrect. A.Y.Dray commissioned her in 1812 as a troopship.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_v.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041628/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_v.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 August 2011|title=NMM, vessel ID 383651|work=Warship Histories, vol v|publisher=National Maritime Museum|access-date=30 July 2011}} In September 1812 Lloyd's List reported that the frigate Dover had arrived at Portsmouth on 1 September from Anholt. On 13 January 1813 the "Dover frigate" arrived at Torbay, having escorted seven merchantmen from Portsmouth.
In 1813 Dover was in the Mediterranean. She then sailed to the North American station.
On 28 June 1813 Dover recaptured the schooner Harriet, A. Winterholt, master. She had been carrying oil and sealskins when she had been captured. The prize crew took her into Halifax, Nova Scotia.{{sfnp|Vice-Admiralty Court|1911|p=124}}
On 30 June Dover captured the ship Liverpool Packet, S.Nicholas, master. The prize court in Halifax restored her to her owners.{{sfnp|Vice-Admiralty Court|1911|p=134}}{{efn|Liverpool Packet, of 376 tons (bm), had been launched in Boston in 1810. Although the records of the Vice-Admiralty court indicate that she had been restored to her owners, she is no longer listed in LR in 1814.}} The report in Lloyd's List referred to Dover as the "Dover M[{{not typo|an of}}] [W{{not a typo|ar}}].{{cite news|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005785830?urlappend=%3Bseq=155%3Bownerid=13510798895485913-163 |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=4803 |date=10 September 1813 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015005785830?urlappend=%3Bseq=155 |accessdate=11 December 2021}}
At some point in 1813 Dover captured the brig Roscio, F.Jose Carva, master.{{sfnp|Vice-Admiralty Court|1911|p=152}}
In August Dover was at Quebec. Forty-one and officers and men from Dover joined the British squadron on Lake Erie, arriving on 5 September.
The frigate Dover arrived at Deal from Quebec on 19 July 1814, and sailed for Portsmouth two days later.{{cite news|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005785830?urlappend=%3Bseq=354%3Bownerid=13510798895485913-374 |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=4886 |date=22 July 1814 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015005785830?urlappend=%3Bseq=354 |accessdate=11 December 2021}}
Commander Robert Henley Rogers was appointed to Dover on 30 July 1814.{{sfnp|Marshall|1830|p=112}} On 18 September, five rifle companies of the 95th Regiment of Foot were embarked aboard the Dover and the {{HMS |Fox |1780|2}}. They were part of a squadron, with {{HMS|Bedford|1775|2}} as flagship, that carried the advance guard of Major General Keane's army, which was moving to attack New Orleans.{{sfnp|Surtees|2005|p=324}} Rogers was promoted to post-captain on 2 September 1816.{{sfnp|Marshall|1830|p=112}}
At the end of 1814, Dover took part in the Gulf Campaign as a troopship. Under the rules of prize-money, the troopship Dictator shared in the proceeds of the capture of the American vessels in the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December 1814.{{efn|
'Notice is hereby given to the officers and companies of His Majesty's ships
Asia,
{{HMS|Diomede|1798|2}},
Dover,
Fox,
{{HMS|Thames|1805|2}},
and Weser,
that they will be paid their respective proportions of prize money.'
{{London Gazette|page=1561|issue=17730|date=28 July 1821}}}}{{efn|A first-class share of the prize money was worth £34 12s 9¼d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 7s 10¾d.}}
On 29 May 1815 the A[{{not a typo|rmed}}] S[{{not a typo|hip}}] Dover arrived at Portsmouth from Havana.
=Post-war=
On 16 April 1816 the Dover frigate sailed from Portsmouth for the West Indies. On 13 May she was at Madeira and the next day she sailed for Barbados, which she reached on 3 June.
Between September and November 1819 Dover was fitted for a guardship at Leith.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=216}} Captain Arthur Batt Bingham took command of Dover on 25 September 1819. At the time she was serving as the flagship to Admiral Robert Otway.{{sfnp|Marshall|1829a|p=54}} In 1820 she served as the flagship to Admiral Sir John P. Beresford. On 14 November 1821 command of Dover passed to Captain Samuel Chambers.{{sfnp|Marshall|1829b|p=105–106}}
Between October 1824 and February 1825 Dover was at Deptford being fitted as a receiving ship.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=216}}
Between June and July 1831 Dover was at Deptford for the quarantine service.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=216}}
==Fate==
Dover was sold at Deptford on 21 January 1836 for £1000.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=216}}
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References
- {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle=Bingham, Arthur Batt|year=1829a|volume=sup |part=3 |page=49–54}}
- {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle=Chambers, Samuel|year=1829b|volume=sup |part=3 |page=105–106}}
- {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle=Rogers, Robert Henley|volume=sup |part=4 |page=112}}
- {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1|page=}}
- {{cite book |last=Surtees |first=William |year=2005 |orig-year=1833 |title= Twenty-five years in the Rifle Brigade. |publisher=William Blackwood |oclc= 1191238522 | via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OK6Qgfb8-o8C}}
- {{cite book|last=Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax |year=1911 |title=American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812 |location=Salem, Mass. |publisher=Essex Institute |hdl=2027/mdp.39015070578847 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015070578847 |ref={{sfnref|Vice-Admiralty Court|1911}}}}
- {{cite book |first1=Rif |last1=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Winfield |first1=Rif|last2=Roberts |first2=Stephen S. |year=2015 |title=French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1-84832-204-2}}
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