HMS Eugenie (1804)
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HMS Eugenie was launched at Ipswich in 1800 as the mercantile Friends. She sailed as a West Indiaman between London and Jamaica until the British Royal Navy purchased her in 1804. By 1807 the Navy had withdrawn her from service, and in 1810 it sold her. She then returned to mercantile service having resumed the name Friends. She was last listed in 1830.
Career
Friends appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1801 with T. Read, master, W. Thurlby, owner, and trade London.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522503?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 Lloyd's Register (1801), Seq.№F509.] Thereafter her trade became London–Jamaica. Lloyd's Register carried the same information even after the Royal Navy purchased her.
Royal Navy: The Admiralty purchased Friends in June 1804 and renamed her HMS Eugenie. She underwent fitting in May–June by Tibbott & Co., Thames, and then Woolwich between 15 June and 4 August.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=272}}
Commander Charles Webb commissioned her in June for convoys and cruising. She made several voyages to the Channel Islands ferrying troops.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=272}}
Then on 31 January 1805 she sailed from Spithead for the coast of Africa carrying the Scottish explorer Mungo Park. By 25 August 1805 she was at Deal, having come from Africa via Portsmouth. She then sailed on to Sheerness.
By 1807 Eugenie was in ordinary at Sheerness. The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Eugenie sloop" for sale on 22 December 1810.{{London Gazette|date=11 December 1810 |issue=16434 |page=1982}} She was sold there on that day.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=272}}
Friends appeared in Lloyd's Register with new data in 1811. Her master was Stevenson, her owner Sherwood, and her trade London–Honduras.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005667806?urlappend=%3Bseq=615 Lloyd's Register (1811), Supple. pages "F", Seq. №F41.]
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| Year
! Master ! Owner ! Trade ! Notes & Source |
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| 1815
| Stevenson | Sherwood | London–Buenos Aires |
| 1820
| R. Goodland | Sherwood | London–Quebec | RS |
Incident: Lloyd's List reported on 6 January 1824 that Friends, Smithson, master, had gone onshore at Holm Sand (in the Thames Estuary), while sailing from Wyborg. She was gotten off and arrived at Hull on 31 December 1823.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735034?urlappend=%3Bseq=14 Lloyd's List №5870.]
| class="sortable wikitable" |
| Year
! Master ! Owner ! Trade ! Notes & Source |
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| 1825
| Smithson | Sherwood | Hull–America | Damages repaired and "good repair" 1824; RS |
| 1829
| White | Sherwood | Hull–Murmansk | Repairs 1823 and damages repaired 1824; Lloyd's Register |
| 1830
| Taylor | Capt. & Co. | Hull–America | "Good repair" 1829; RS |
Fate
Friends was last listed in 1830.
Citations
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References
- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=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}}
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Category:Age of Sail merchant ships of England