HMS La Hogue
{{Short description|1811 Vengeur-class ship of the line}}
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HMS La Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford. She was named after the 1692 Battle of La Hogue. "The La Hogue of 1811 [...] sported a green and chocolate lion, its grinning mouth displaying rows of white teeth and a huge red tongue."Lubbock, Basil (1922), [https://archive.org/stream/blackwallfrigates00lubb#page/20/mode/2up/ The Blackwall Frigates], p.21.
History
During the War of 1812, while under the command of Thomas Bladen Capel, on 16 May 1813 Hogue recaptured and sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the packet {{ship||Ann|1805 ship|2}}.{{London Gazette|date=7 September 1813|issue=16771|page=1768}} Ann had been on her way from Jamaica to Halifax when the American privateer Yorktown had captured her. However, the American privateer Young Teazer again captured Ann and sent her into Portland, Maine.
Later, La Hogue successfully trapped Young Teazer off the coast of Nova Scotia, British North America.
On 16 August 1813 La Hogue captured the Portuguese ship Flor de Mar. At the time {{HMS|Tenedos|1812|6}} was in sight.{{refn|A first-class share of the prize money was worth £252 0s 9½d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth £1 11s 11¾d.{{London Gazette|date=14 January 1817|issue=17209|page=88}}|group=Note}}
La Hogue was driven ashore at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 12 November 1813 during a storm.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105232912;view=1up;seq=232 |title=Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=4833 |date=27 December 1813 |pages=78 v }} She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
From 7–8 April 1814, ships' boats of the La Hogue, {{HMS|Endymion|1797|2}}, Maidstone and {{HMS|Borer|1812|2}} attacked Pettipague point.James, p325{{cite web |url=http://connecticuthistory.org/the-british-raid-on-essex |title=The British raid on Essex |author=Jerry Roberts | publisher=connecticuthistory.org |access-date=3 February 2014}} In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "8 Apr Boat Service 1814" to all surviving claimants from the action.{{London Gazette|issue=20939|pages=247–247|date=26 January 1849}} The raid was commanded by Coote,{{cite book|last = Wetherell|first = W.D.|title = This American River: Five Centuries of Writing about the Connecticut |publisher = UPNE |year =2002 |pages=56–59 |isbn= 9781584651116 |quote=Letter from Coote to Capel dated 9 April 1814}} who was promoted as a result of the successful outcome, as was Lieutenant Pyne of the La Hogue who assisted him.Marshall, pp301-304
In September 1814, La Hogue anchored near the Scituate Light station on the coast of Massachusetts with the intent of sending a raiding party into the town. Rebecca and Abigail Bates, the lighthouse keeper's daughters, repulsed the attack by playing a drum and a fife that had been left at the station, simulating the approach of the town militia.
La Hogue was converted into a screw-propelled steamship frigate in 1850. From 1852, she acted as a guard-ship at Devonport under the command of Captain William Ramsay and saw her final service, still under Ramsay, on duties in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=680|title = Biography of William Ramsay R.N.}} On 18 September 1855, she ran aground off Renskär, Sweden and was severely damaged. She was refloated with the assistance of three gunboats after her lower deck guns were taken out.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Baltic Fleet |date=3 October 1855 |page=8 |issue=22175 |column=C-E }}
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Citations
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References
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- {{cite book | author = William James (naval historian) | author-link = William James (naval historian) | year = 2002 | orig-year = 1827 | title = The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 6, 1811 – 1827| edition = Rev. | location = London | publisher = Conway Maritime Press | isbn = 0-85177-910-7 | oclc = 48836534 }}
- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
- {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle=Index |volume=4 |part=1}}
- {{cite book | title = The Naval chronicle for 1813 : containing a general and biographical history of the royal navy of the United kingdom with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects | volume = XXX, July - December | publisher = London: Joyce Gold | url = https://archive.org/details/navalchronicleco30londiala}}
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|HMS La Hogue (ship, 1811)}}
- [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=65 HMS La Hogue history]
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Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Category:Vengeur-class ships of the line
Category:Ships built in Deptford
Category:War of 1812 ships of the United Kingdom
Category:Crimean War naval ships of the United Kingdom