HMS Barbados

Last updated December 30, 2021

A number of ships of the Royal Navy were named Barbadoes or Barbados, after the island of Barbados.

HMS Barbadoes (1757), a 14-gun sloop in service 1757–63
HMS Barbadoes (1778), a 14-gun brig-sloop in service 1778–80
HMS Barbadoes (1782), a 14-gun sloop in service 1782–84
HMS Barbadoes (1804), a fifth-rate frigate, formerly the French privateer Braave
HMS Barbadoes (1813) was a 16-gun vessel, the American Herald, captured in 1813. She was paid-off in May 1816 and became a powder ship in Jamaica that was later wrecked with her remains being sold.
HMS Barbados (K504), a Colony-class frigate

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HMS Barbadoes was a 16-gun vessel, the American Herald, captured in 1813. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Barbadoes She captured a number of merchantmen and privateers before she was paid-off in May 1816. In 1814–1815 she also captured three Spanish and French vessels carrying over 1100 slaves. Barbadoes became a powder ship in Jamaica that was later wrecked with her remains being sold.

HMS Barbadoes was originally a French privateer and then slave ship named Brave or Braave. A British slave ship captured her in September 1803. In 1803–1804 she became the British privateer Barbadoes for a few months. In 1804 the inhabitants of Barbados purchased her and donated her to the Royal Navy, which took her into service as HMS Barbadoes. She wrecked on 27 September 1812.

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