HMS Beelzebub (1813)

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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Beelzebub
Namesake Beelzebub
Ordered30 March 1812
BuilderWilliam Taylor, Bideford
Laid downNovember 1812
Launched30 July 1813
Honours and
awards		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Algiers" [1]
FateBroken up September 1820
General characteristics [2]
Class and type Vesuvius-class bomb vessel
Tons burthen3341⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:108 ft 2 in (33.0 m)
  • Keel:84 ft 2+3⁄8 in (25.7 m)
Beam27 ft 3+3⁄4 in (8.3 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 11+3⁄4 in (4.0 m)
Armament
  • Upper deck: 8 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns
  • Mortars: 1 × 10 in (0.25 m) + 1 × 13 in (0.33 m)

HMS Beelzebub (or Belzebub) was a mortar vessel of the Royal Navy launched on 30 July 1813, and put into in ordinary. In 1816 she was put into service to participate in a naval campaign. On her return in 1817 she was again put into ordinary. The Navy had her broken up in 1820.

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Career

In 1816 Beelzebub was taken out of ordinary, [2] and Commander William Kempthorne was appointed on 2 July 1816 to command her. [3]

Beelzebub took part in Lord Exmouth's punitive expedition against the Dey of Algiers. She participated, on 27 August 1816, in the bombardment of Algiers (1816). During the bombardment Kempthorne commanded the division of bombs vessels. Beelzebub's large mortar fired once in every ten minutes. [3] The mortar and rocket boats between them set all the vessels in the harbour on fire and the fire spread to the arsenal on the mole. Beelzebub had one man killed and two wounded in the bombardment. [4] [lower-alpha 1]

Two days after the battle Kempthorne was appointed acting captain on HMS Queen Charlotte. [3] His first lieutenant on Beelzebub was Lieutenant George Pierce. [6] Kempthorne was promoted to post captain on 16 September 1816. He remained in command of Queen Charlotte until she was decommissioned. [3]

Beelzebub was placed in ordinary at Plymouth in 1817. The Admiralty planned to have her repaired, but then she was broken up on 23 September 1820. [2]

In 1847 the Admiralty authorised the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Algiers" to all surviving claimants from the battle.

Notes

  1. ↑ A first-class share of the prize money was worth £1068 11s 6¼d; a sixth class share was worth £4 10s 2½d. [5]

Citations

  1. ↑ "No. 20939". The London Gazette . 26 January 1849. p. 245.
  2. 1 2 3 Winfield (2008), p. 376.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Marshall (1830), p. 116.
  4. ↑ "No. 17173". The London Gazette . 15 September 1816. pp. 1789–1793.
  5. ↑ "No. 17355". The London Gazette . 2 May 1818. p. 791.
  6. ↑ Marshall (1835), p. 129.

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