73-455: HMS Phoebe may refer to: HMS Phoebe (1795) , 36, a fifth-rate frigate launched in 1795. HMS Phoebe (1854) , 51, a fourth-rate frigate launched in 1854. HMS Phoebe (1890) , a Pearl -class second class cruiser launched in 1890. HMS Phoebe (1916) , an Admiralty M-class destroyer launched in 1916. HMS Phoebe (43) ,
146-698: A Dido -class light cruiser launched in 1939. HMS Phoebe (F42) , a Leander -class frigate launched in 1964. The ship played the fictional HMS Hero (F42) in the 1970s Warship BBC television drama series. References [ edit ] Colledge, J. J. ; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with
219-747: A Deputy First Sea Lord , was added to the Board who would administer operations abroad and deal with questions of foreign policy. In October 1917, the development of the staff was carried one step further by the creation of two sub-committees of the Board—the Operations Committee and the Maintenance Committee. The First Lord of the Admiralty was chairman of both committees, and the Operations Committee consisted of
292-565: A French ship off Ceuta , also sailing eastwards. Barlow chased the French vessel for two-and-a-half hours before he could bring her to a close action . After about two hours the French vessel struck her colours; she had five feet (1.5 m) of water in her hold and was almost a wreck. Phoebe ' s fire had dismounted her guns and left her decks strewn with hundreds of casualties. She proved to be Africaine , of twenty-six 18-pounders and eighteen 9-pounders; she had sailed from Rochefort on
365-654: A convoy for Brazil and the East Indies . On 6 July Phoebe , the sloop-of-war Cherub , and Racoon sailed from Rio de Janeiro around Cape Horn to the Juan Fernández Islands . There, Racoon continued on to the fur trading outpost of Fort Astoria . Phoebe and Cherub remained to search for the 36-gun USS Essex . Hillyar was under orders to capture the Essex "at all costs". On 8 February 1814 Phoebe and Cherub arrived at Valparaíso ,
438-709: A disastrous attack on two French privateers off Civitavecchia . The privateers repulsed the British, who lost eight men killed and wounded. On 1 August, Phoebe captured two settées , which a French squadron recaptured. In recapturing the settees, the French squadron involved lost an opportunity to capture Phoebe , though they did capture the schooner Redbridge and a transport. Hindostan arrived at Gibraltar in March 1804 and then sailed from there to join Admiral Nelson off Toulon in company with Phoebe , but
511-420: A nearby bay and defeated her in a short engagement. Phoebe and Cherub also captured Essex ' s tender, Essex Junior , the ex-British whaler Atlantic . In the engagement with Essex , Phoebe had four men killed, including her first lieutenant, and seven men wounded. Cherub had one killed and three wounded, including her captain. The British reported that Essex had 24 killed and 45 wounded, though
584-407: A neutral port, where Essex and her prizes were anchored. Having trapped Essex in the harbour, Hillyar waited six weeks for her to come out and thwarted all of the efforts of her captain, David Porter , to escape. Eventually, on 28 March, Porter attempted to break out of the harbour. A squall took off his main topmast and he attempted to return to harbour but Phoebe and Cherub drove Essex into
657-507: A port about 20 or 25 leagues (97 or 121 km) further to the east. The next day Phoebe arrived off the harbour. Together with a landing party of seamen, marines, and some sepoys , Captain Hillyar took quiet possession of the fort and public stores. Phoebe , Nisus , President , and Harpy joined Stopford with Scipion and Lion on 14 September. The next day they sailed for Surabaya . On 17 September they anchored off Ledayo on
730-703: A separate Navy Board responsible for the day-to-day running of the Royal Navy, the Army Board and the Air Force Board , each headed by the Secretary of State for Defence . In the 20th century the structure of the Admiralty Headquarters was predominantly organized into four parts: Board of Admiralty When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, until it reverted to
803-842: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles HMS Phoebe (1795) HMS Phoebe was a 36-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy . She had a career of almost twenty years and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars , the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 . Overall, her crews were awarded six clasps to the Naval General Service Medals , with two taking place in the French Revolutionary Wars, three during
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#1732802459969876-816: The National Maritime Museum , as part of the Warship Histories project. British Admiralty The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State . For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition,
949-482: The Navy Board responsible for 'civil administration' of the navy, from 1546 to 1832. This structure of administering the navy lasted for 285 years, however, the supply system was often inefficient and corrupt its deficiencies were due as much to its limitations of the times they operated in. The various functions within the Admiralty were not coordinated effectively and lacked inter-dependency with each other, with
1022-469: The Navy Board —in 1546, to oversee administrative affairs of the naval service. Operational control of the Royal Navy remained the responsibility of the Lord High Admiral, who was one of the nine Great Officers of State . This management approach would continue in force in the Royal Navy until 1832. King Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission in 1628, and control of
1095-661: The Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs administered the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England , which merged with the Royal Scots Navy and then absorbed the responsibilities of the Lord High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland with the unification of the Kingdom of Great Britain . The Admiralty was among the most important departments of the British Government , because of the Royal Navy's role in
1168-644: The Sandwich Islands . Sir Andrew Hammond was a whaler that Porter had captured and left at Nuka Hiva , together with other captured vessels, including the Greenwich and the former British letter-of-marque whaler, USS Seringapatam , the whole being under the command of Lieutenant John M. Gamble USMC . When Gamble made preparations to leave the island, many of his party mutinied . Gamble and seven men (four unfit for duty) escaped and sailed Sir Andrew Hammond 2,000 miles (3,200 km) before they had
1241-811: The Shetland Islands to find a French squadron reported to be destroying British and Russian fishing and merchant vessels in the Arctic. Although Phoebe met with no success, Blanche encountered and captured Guerriere . Phoebe then sailed to the West Indies. On 18 January 1808, Phoebe sailed for the Mediterranean. In April 1809 Captain Hassard Stackpoole took command for the Baltic. > Between 7 and 12 July, Phoebe captured
1314-513: The 13th. She was under the command of Capitaine Majendie and she flew the broad pennant of Commandant de Division Saunier. She had a crew of 315 men, but also was ferrying 400 troops under General Desfourneaux to reinforce the French invasion force in Egypt. The French reported that they had suffered 200 killed in the action, including Saunier, the Chef de Brigade and two army captains, and 143 wounded,
1387-671: The Admiralty (from 1628) exercised the function of general control (military administration) of the Navy and they were usually responsible for the conduct of any war, while the actual supply lines, support and services were managed by four principal officers, namely, the Treasurer , Comptroller , Surveyor and Clerk of the Acts , responsible individually for finance , supervision of accounts , Shipbuilding and maintenance of ships, and record of business. These principal officers came to be known as
1460-699: The Admiralty Naval Staff in 1917. It was the former senior command, operational planning, policy and strategy department within the British Admiralty. It was established in 1917 and existed until 1964 when the department of the Admiralty was abolished, and the staff departments function continued within the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence until 1971 when its functions became part of the new Naval Staff, Navy Department of
1533-594: The Admiralty. The Lords Commissioners were always a mixture of admirals , known as Naval Lords or Sea Lords and Civil Lords, normally politicians. The quorum of the Board was two commissioners and a secretary. The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty , who was a member of the Cabinet . After 1806, the First Lord of the Admiralty was always a civilian, while the professional head of
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#17328024599691606-878: The Americans reported higher casualties. In 1847 the then surviving crew members of Phoebe and Cherub were awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasps "Phoebe 28 March 1814" and "Cherub 28 March 1814". On 31 May Phoebe and Essex set sail for England, with Lieutenant Pearson of Phoebe commanding the prize crew on Essex . On the way they stopped for some time in Rio de Janeiro. The two ships finally anchored in Plymouth sound on 13 November. The Admiralty promoted Pearson to commander, and repaired Essex , taking her into service as HMS Essex . On 19 June, Cherub recaptured Sir Andrew Hammond near
1679-581: The Board of Admiralty until 1832. Its principal commissioners of the Navy advised the board in relation to civil administration of the naval affairs. The Navy Board was based at the Navy Office . Board of Admiralty civilian members responsible other important civil functions Admiralty Naval Staff It evolved from * Admiralty Navy War Council , (1909–1912) which in turn became the Admiralty War Staff , (1912–1917) before finally becoming
1752-710: The CNS to issue orders in their own name, as opposed to them previously being issued by the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty in the name of the Board. In 1964, the Admiralty—along with the War Office and the Air Ministry —were abolished as separate departments of state, and placed under one single new Ministry of Defence . Within the expanded Ministry of Defence are the new Admiralty Board which has
1825-634: The Crown , it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, &c. (alternatively of England , Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period). The Board of Admiralty consisted of a number of Lords Commissioners of
1898-661: The East Indies. On 9 April 1812 Phoebe sailed with a convoy for Quebec. She returned to Deal on 2 August. On 30 September she was in Plymouth, having brought dispatches from Halifax . She then underwent a refit. In late December 1812, Phoebe captured two American schooners. One was the Vengeance , an American letter of marquee 12-gun schooner from New York, bound to Bordeaux, laden with sugar and coffee. Vengeance arrived in Plymouth on 8 January. The Royal Navy took Vengeance into service as Telegraph . Vengeance
1971-655: The First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, the Deputy First Sea Lord, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, and Fifth Sea Lord . Full operational control of the Royal Navy was finally handed over to the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) by an order in Council , effective October 1917, under which he became responsible for the issuing of orders affecting all war operations directly to the fleet. It also empowered
2044-540: The French 36-gun Néréide , Captain Antoine Canon. Phoebe sighted the Néréide at 10am; the pursuit started at 11:30am and ended at 10:45pm with Néréide ' s surrender. During the chase Néréide fired her stern guns at Phoebe and the two vessels exchanged broadsides shortly before the Néréide surrendered. Phoebe lost three men killed and 10 wounded; Néréide lost 20 men killed and 55 wounded. Part of
2117-520: The French fleet returned to port without engaging. On 24 August 1804 Phoebe and Childers captured Venscab . On 10 November Phoebe captured Cacciatore . Then Phoebe and Hydra shared the proceeds from the capture between 9 and 15 November of the vessels Paulina and Sesostris . HMS Victory was passing the island of Toro (off Mallorca; 39°27′44″N 2°28′18″E / 39.462307°N 2.471722°E / 39.462307; 2.471722 ) on 4 April 1805 when Phoebe brought
2190-589: The Java shore where three transports with 450 men joined them. There they learned that the Dutch and French had surrendered the day before. The troops landed two days later and took possession of the place on 20 September under the general terms of the capitulation. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Java" to all remaining survivors of the campaign. Phoebe arrived at Plymouth Dock on 18 January 1812 with dispatches from
2263-683: The Ministry of Defence. Offices of the Naval Staff Admiralty Departments The Admiralty Departments were distinct and component parts of the Department of Admiralty that were superintended by the various offices of the Sea Lords responsible for them; they were primarily administrative, research, scientific and logistical support organisations. The departments role was to provide the men, ships, aircraft and supplies to carry out
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2336-677: The Napoleonic Wars and the sixth in the War of 1812. Three of the clasps carried the name Phoebe . During her career, Phoebe sailed to the Mediterranean and Baltic seas, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, North and South America. Once peace finally arrived, Phoebe was laid up, though she spent a few years as a slop ship during the 1820s. She was then hulked. The Admiralty finally sold her for breaking up in 1841. She
2409-652: The Naval General Service Medal (1847). Captain Thomas Baker subsequently took command of Phoebe in May 1801. In June 1802 Capt. James Shephard took command. Captain The Hon. Thomas Bladen Capell followed him and recommissioned Phoebe in September. She then sailed for the Mediterranean on 28 September. In 1803 Phoebe was sailing out of Malta . At some point, perhaps during the summer, her boats participated in
2482-414: The Naval General Service Medal. On 3 August 1811, Phoebe joined the fleet involved in the invasion of Java . Lieutenant-general Sir Samuel Auchmuty was the military commander-in-chief, and Commodore William Robert Broughton of the 74-gun third rate Illustrious was the naval commander-in-chief. Later, Rear-Admiral Robert Stopford took charge of the naval forces. On 31 August Stopford detached
2555-468: The Royal Navy is controlled by a Navy Board (not to be confused with the historic Navy Board ). It is common for the various authorities now in charge of the Royal Navy to be referred to as simply 'The Admiralty'. The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom was vested in the monarch from 1964 to 2011. The title was awarded to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh by Queen Elizabeth II on his 90th birthday and since his death in 2021 has reverted to
2628-476: The Royal Navy passed to a committee in the form of the Board of Admiralty . The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission (the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century). In this organization a dual system operated the Lord High Admiral (from 1546) then Commissioners of
2701-616: The Russian vessels Saint Nicholas 1 and Saint Nicholas 2 , and another vessel, name unknown. In August Captain James Hillyar replaced Stackpoole. On 6 January 1810 Phoebe sailed from Torbay for off the Île de Batz . Later she was in the Gulf of Livonia where her boats took numerous prizes. Between March and July 1810 Phoebe underwent repairs at Plymouth. She then sailed for the East Indies on 18 July. By 21 November Phoebe
2774-692: The Thames. She then moved to Deptford Dockyard , where she was completed on 23 December. Phoebe was first commissioned in October 1795 under Captain Robert Barlow , for the Irish coast and Edward Pellew 's squadron. On 10 January 1797, after an eight-hour chase, she captured the 16-gun Atalante , under the command of Lieutenant Dordelin, off the Isles of Scilly . Atalante had a crew of 112 men. She
2847-403: The approved policy of the Board of Admiralty and conveyed to them during 20th century by the Admiralty Naval Staff. Offices of the Sea Lords Department of the Permanent Secretary The Secretary's Department consisted of members of the civil service it was directed and controlled by a senior civil servant Permanent Secretary to the Board of Admiralty he was not a Lord Commissioner of
2920-408: The board ensured the necessary authority to carry through any operation of war. The Deputy Chief of Naval Staff would direct all operations and movements of the fleet, while the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff would be responsible for mercantile movements and anti-submarine operations. The office of Controller would be re-established to deal with all questions relating to supply; on 6 September 1917,
2993-495: The command of Francis Austen , the brother of the acclaimed novelist Jane Austen , together with Hermes (1811) . On 27 December they captured the American privateer schooner Swordfish of Gloucester , John Evans, master. Swordfish was 16 days out of Boston and had a crew of 82 men, and originally twelve 6-pounder guns. However, she had thrown 10 overboard during the chase, which took 11 hours and covered more than 100 miles. On 18 March 1813 Phoebe left Portsmouth with
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3066-401: The creation of the Admiralty Navy War Council in 1909. Following this, a new advisory body called the Admiralty War Staff was then instituted in 1912, headed by the Chief of the War Staff who was responsible for administering three new sub-divisions responsible for operations , intelligence and mobilisation . The new War Staff had hardly found its feet and it continually struggled with
3139-401: The expansion and maintenance of the English overseas possessions in the 17th century , the British Empire in the 18th century , and subsequently. The modern Admiralty Board , to which the functions of the Admiralty were transferred in 1964, is a committee of the tri-service Defence Council of the United Kingdom . This Admiralty Board meets only twice a year, and the day-to-day running of
3212-436: The eyes of the British fleet. When the Combined Fleet put to sea on 19 October, Phoebe was first in line, followed by Naiad and the third-rate Defence . Capel spotted the Combined Fleet's exit and notified Nelson. As the combined fleet approached the British over the next couple of days, the frigates shadowed it, reporting on its movements. During the subsequent Battle of Trafalgar , Phoebe relayed Nelson's signals to
3285-472: The frigates Nisus , President , and Phoebe , and the sloop Hesper to take Cheribon , a seaport about 35 leagues (170 km) east of Batavia . They arrived at dark on 3 September and the fort surrendered the next morning without a shot being fired. On 11 September, all squadron re-embarked the seamen and marines that had landed, together with about 700 prisoners, including 237 Europeans. At 4am Nisus and Phoebe weighed and steered for Taggal,
3358-430: The later including Desfourneaux and Majendie, who was wounded in two places. The heavy casualties were the result of French troops crowding the upper deck despite their small arms fire contributing little or nothing in the dark to her defense. The troops had refused shelter below deck on the basis of mistaken valour. Phoebe lost one man killed, and 12 men wounded. Her masts, sails and rigging were badly damaged but she
3431-452: The misfortune to meet up with Cherub . Phoebe was paid off in 1814 and laid up at Plymouth in August 1815. Between January 1823 and October 1826 she was a receiving ship and slop ship. She became a hulk in 1826 at Plymouth. Phoebe was sold for breaking up to Joshua Crystall for £1,750 on 25 May 1841. This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by
3504-408: The mission of covering Sicily, Sardinia and the route to Egypt. Phoebe joined the blockade of Cadiz later in the summer. The arrival of the additional frigates Phoebe , Naiad , Sirius , Juno , and Niger off Cadiz allowed Nelson to detach them to disrupt local shipping supplying provisions for the Franco-Spanish Combined Fleet in Cadiz. In October, the frigate squadron was acting as
3577-419: The monarch. There also continues to be a Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and a Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom , both of which are honorary offices. The office of Admiral of England (later Lord Admiral, and later Lord High Admiral ) was created around 1400; there had previously been Admirals of the northern and western seas. King Henry VIII established the Council of the Marine—later to become
3650-431: The navy and naval thought. Between 1860 and 1908, there was no real study of strategy and of staff work conducted within the naval service ; it was practically ignored. All the Navy's talent flowed to the great technical universities. This school of thought for the next 50 years was exclusively technically based. The first serious attempt to introduce a sole management body to administer the naval service manifested itself in
3723-409: The navy came to be (and is still today) known as the First Sea Lord . Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (1628–1964) The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were the members of The Board of Admiralty, which exercised the office of Lord High Admiral when it was not vested in a single person. The commissioners were a mixture of politicians without naval experience and professional naval officers,
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#17328024599693796-403: The newly created office of Chief of the Naval Staff was merged in the office of the First Sea Lord. Also appointed was a new post, that of Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff , and an Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff ; all were given seats on the Board of Admiralty. This for the first time gave the naval staff direct representation on the board; the presence of three senior naval senior members on
3869-415: The news that the French fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve entered Cadiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. Then, while Nelson was pursuing the French fleet from Toulon to the West Indies, Capel, in Phoebe , was in charge of a small squadron of five frigates and two bomb vessels with
3942-399: The opposition to its existence by senior officers they were categorically opposed to a staff. The deficiencies of the system within this department of state could be seen in the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign . There were no mechanisms in place to answer the big strategic questions. A Trade Division was created in 1914. Sir John Jellicoe came to the Admiralty in 1916. He re-organized
4015-449: The privateer Heureux in the English Channel off Bordeaux. Heureux had intended to cruise the West Indies . Instead, she arrived at Plymouth on 25 March. Heureux , of 22 long brass 12-pounders and 220 men, mistook Phoebe for an East Indiaman , and approached her. Heureux did not discover her mistake until she had arrived within point-blank musket -shot. Heureux fired on Phoebe in an "Act of Temerity to be regretted". Her hope
4088-434: The proportion of naval officers generally increasing over time. Key Officials First Lord of the Admiralty The First Lord of the Admiralty or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty was the British government's senior civilian adviser on all naval affairs and the minister responsible for the direction and control of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs Office later the Department of Admiralty.(+) His office
4161-427: The reason for the disparity in casualties was that the ratio of the weight of the broadsides was 407 pounds (185 kg) to 268 pounds (122 kg). In 1847, the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Phoebe 21 Decr. 1797" to all remaining members of her crew who had participated in the action. On 11 October 1799, Phoebe captured the French privateer Grand Ferrailleur . Grand Ferrailleur
4234-438: The rest of fleet, and remained close to the action although she did not actually engage the enemy. In the gale that followed a few days later Donegal and Phoebe assisted two of the prizes, Swiftsure and Bahama , with the result that they were saved. In January 1806 Captain James Oswald took command. Phoebe then served in the North Sea and the Channel. On 9 July Phoebe , Thames and Amfitrite were deployed to
4307-505: The result that in 1832, Sir James Graham abolished the Navy Board and merged its functions within those of the Board of Admiralty. At the time this had distinct advantages; however, it failed to retain the principle of distinctions between the Admiralty and supply, and a lot of bureaucracy followed with the merger. In 1860 saw big growth in the development of technical crafts, the expansion of more admiralty branches that really began with age of steam that would have an enormous influence on
4380-423: The role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty , who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty , rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command ). Before the Acts of Union 1707 ,
4453-590: The same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Phoebe&oldid=1060441356 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Royal Navy ship names Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from January 2017 Use British English from January 2017 Articles with short description Short description
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#17328024599694526-406: The severe action the British captured Renommée ; Néréide surrendered subsequently on the 25th at Tamatave . The British took both vessels into service, Néréide as Madagascar and Renommée as Java . Phoebe suffered seven dead and 24 wounded. Néréide suffered some 130 men dead and wounded. In 1847 this battle earned Phoebe ' s surviving crew the clasp "Off Tamatave 20 May 1811" to
4599-409: The vessels became separated during a gale in the Gulf of Lyons . Shortly thereafter Hindostan caught fire and was totally destroyed. On 13 June Phoebe and Amazon made ready to engage two French frigates anchored under the guns of the north-most fort at Toulon. The fort fired at Phoebe , but she was out of range. When the French fleet sortied, the British vessels rejoined their squadron, however
4672-423: The war staff as following: Chief of War Staff, Operations, Intelligence, Signal Section , Mobilisation, Trade. It was not until 1917 that the admiralty department was again properly reorganized and began to function as a professional military staff . In May 1917, the term "Admiralty War Staff" was renamed and that department and its functional role were superseded by a new " Admiralty Naval Staff "; in addition,
4745-540: The wind had pushed out to sea while the sloop was sailing from Limerick to Galway with a cargo of wine. Barlow described Heureux as "the most complete flush Deck Ship I have ever seen, coppered, Copper fastened, highly finished and of large Dimensions... The Accounts given of her Sailing are very extraordinary; she will be considered as a most desirable Ship for His Majesty's Service." The British took her into service as Heureux . On 19 February 1801, about six miles (9.7 km) east of Gibraltar , Phoebe sighted
4818-415: Was a three-year-old brig with a coppered hull and an 80-foot (24 m) keel. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. In 1797 Phoebe was off Brest as part of an inshore squadron of frigates under Sir Edward Pellew in Indefatigable . The squadron included Amazon , Révolutionnaire and the hired armed lugger Duke of York . On 22 December 1797 Phoebe captured
4891-418: Was able to limp to Port Mahon . Weak winds resulted in the voyage, in company with Africaine , taking two weeks. The British took Africaine into service under her existing name. Barlow received a knighthood. Phoebe ' s first lieutenant , John Wentworth Holland, who had been wounded, received a promotion to commander. In 1847 the action earned Phoebe ' s crew the clasp "Phoebe 19 Feby. 1801" to
4964-562: Was armed with sixteen brass 6-pounder guns and had a crew of 121 men. She was 16 days from Bordeaux but had not taken any prizes . On 21 February 1800, Phoebe captured the French privateer Bellegarde (or Belle Garde ) of Saint-Malo . Bellegarde carried 14 guns and a crew of 114 men. She had been out 16 days and had captured Chance , of London and sailing from Martinique , and the brig Friends , of Dartmouth, sailing from St. Michael's to Bristol. Later, on 24 February, Kangaroo recaptured Chance . On 5 March, Phoebe captured
5037-442: Was closely followed by Hunter , a privateer schooner, of 14 guns and 100 men. The capture of Hunter occurred on 23 December after a chase during which she threw 12 of her guns overboard. Earlier, Hunter had captured a transport and a brig from a convoy under the escort of hired armed cutter Nimrod . A few days later, Phoebe was sailing off the Azores in the company of the 74-gun third rate HMS Elephant , under
5110-422: Was off the island of Rodrigues preparing for a joint naval and military expedition to take the Île de France . The expedition arrived on 28 November and the French signed the capitulation on 3 December. In March 1811, Phoebe survived two major hurricanes in the Indian Ocean. Phoebe the participated in the Battle of Tamatave , where she fought another Néréide , under Captain Jean-François Lemaresquier . In
5183-430: Was one of four frigates that the Admiralty ordered on 24 May 1794 to a design by Sir John Henslow , Surveyor of the Navy, to be a faster version of the 1781 Perseverance -class frigates . The contract for the first ship was placed with the Thames -side yard of John Dudman, where the keel was laid in June 1794. She was named Phoebe on 26 February 1795 and was launched on 24 September 1795 at Deptford Wharf on
5256-548: Was supported by the Naval Secretariat . First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff The First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff was the Chief Naval Adviser on the Board of Admiralty to the First Lord and superintended the offices of the sea lords and the admiralty naval staff. Navy Board The Navy Board was an independent board from 1546 until 1628 when it became subordinate to, yet autonomous of
5329-430: Was that well-directed fire would disable Phoebe ' s masts, rigging, and sails, and thereby enable Heureux to escape. Phoebe returned fire and Heureux was forced to strike her colours . Phoebe had three seamen killed or mortally wounded, and three slightly wounded. Heureux had 18 men killed and 25 wounded, most of whom lost limbs. She had been out 42 days but had captured only a small Portuguese sloop that
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