HMS Fly (1813)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Fly.

Fly when re-rigged as a ship sloop in 1822
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Fly
Builder	Jabez Bayley, Ipswich
Launched	1813
Commissioned	1813
Decommissioned	1828
Fate	Sold, 1828
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	38677⁄94 (bm)
Length	100 ft 5 in (30.6 m) o/a; 77 ft 9 in (23.7 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 7 in (9.3 m)
Draught	7 ft 7 in (2.3 m) (unladen); 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) (laden)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades 2 × 6-pounder bow guns

HMS Fly (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched on 16 February 1813 and commissioned May 1813. ^[1]

She served: ^[1]

• on the Channel station under Sir William G. Parker from May 1813, ^[2]
• on the Newfoundland Station from June 1814 until paid off in April 1815,
• on the Cork station, after recommissioning in 1818, until December 1821,
• on Cape of Good Hope Station from December 1821,
• in South America from 1823,
• in East Indies from 1825.

In December 1826 Fly, under Captain Frederick Augustus Wetherall, ^[3] supported the short-lived settlement of Western Port, in southern Victoria, Australia. ^[4]

She was sold in Bombay on 10 April 1828. ^[1]

See also

• Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet, commander on South American station in 1823 ^[5]

Citations

1. Winfield (2008), p. 304.
2. O'Byrne 1849.
3. O'Byrne 1849b.
4. HRA 1922, Series 3, Volume 5, pp 827ff.
5. Laughton1901, pp. 143–145.

References

• Historical Records of Australia. Series III. Despatches and Papers Relating to the Settlement of the States Volume V. Tasmania, December, 1825-March, 1827. Northern Territory, 1823–1827. Western Port, Victoria, 1826–1827, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, Commonwealth of Australia, 1922, hdl:1959.9/512894
• Laughton, John Knox (1901). "Martin, William Fanshawe"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 143–145.
• O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Parker, William George"  . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . London: John Murray.
• O'Byrne, William R. (1849b). "Wetherall, Frederick Augustus"  . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . London: John Murray.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN   1-86176-246-1.