HMS Nile (1806)
{{short description|Cutter of the Royal Navy}}
{{Other ships|HMS Nile|Hired armed cutter Nile|Hired armed lugger Nile}}
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The British Royal Navy purchased HMS Nile on 3 November 1806. She was the hired armed cutter Nile. After a brief, undistinguished career, the Navy sold her in 1810 only to have to break her up in 1811.
Career
Between 15 November 1806 and 13 January 1807 Nile was at Portsmouth undergoing repairs. Lieutenant James Lloyd had commissioned her in November 1806.Winfield (2008), pp.370-1.
On 12 February {{HMS|Atalante|1797|6}} was wrecked off the Île de Ré, near Rochefort. She had been cruising to watch enemy vessels in Rochefort when she hit the Grande Blanche rock. Despite attempts to lighten her that included cutting away her masts, she continued to founder. At daybreak three British vessels approached and took off the crew, enduring fire from shore batteries as they did so. The first was Nile, followed later by the frigates {{HMS|Penelope|1799|2}} and {{HMS|Pomone|1805|2}}.Hepper (1994), p.117.
Lloyd proved a disappointment. {{cquote|Lieutenant Lloyd always in his cabin — sea sick, I suppose, ... [Nile] has been no manner of use to Commodore Keats, nor will be to anyone, unless an officer who is a cutter sailor has the direction of her. Little Simmons of Plymouth would do it well.|20px|20px|Admiral John Jervis, Earl St Vincent (9 March 1807)Publications... (1904), Vol. 28, p.65.}}
Within 1807, Lieutenant Thomas Johnson, who had commanded the hired armed cutter Nile, replaced Lloyd. Unfortunately, Johnson was imprisoned for smuggling.United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Vol. 69, p.795.
Lieutenant Symons replaced Johnson for the Channel, but on 4 December Symons sailed for the Mediterranean.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_viii.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 372141|work=Warship Histories, vol viii|publisher=National Maritime Museum|access-date=30 July 2011}} On 25 December 1807 she captured Industry.{{London Gazette|issue=16469|page=580|date=26 March 1811}} At about the same time, Nile also detained, and sent into Dartmouth Æolus, Angel, master, which had been sailing from Caediz to St Petersburg.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005721488?urlappend=%3Bseq=215 Lloyd's List №4215.]
At end-April 1809 Symons brought Nile into Falmouth with dispatches from Lisbon and Seville. These were rushed overland to London. Nile then sailed to Plymouth.The Lady's Magazine: Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement (1809), Vol. 40, pp.235-7.
Fate
The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" sold Nile on 18 October 1810.{{London Gazette|date=2 October 1810|issue=16410|page=1564}} However the purchaser withdrew from the sale. The Navy then broke her up at Plymouth in November 1811.
Citations
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References
- {{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn= 0-948864-30-3}}
- Publications of the Navy Records Society (1904), Vol. 28. (Navy Records Society).
- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
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