HMS Satellite (1806)

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Satellite
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Satellite
BuilderHills Shipyard, Sandwich, Kent
LaunchedMarch 1806
FateFoundered 19/20 December 1810
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Seagull-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen28861⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 93 ft 2 in (28.4 m)
  • Keel: 76 ft 3+3⁄4 in (23.3 m)
Beam26 ft 8 in (8.1 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 0 in (3.7 m)
Sail plan Sloop
Complement95
Armament

HMS Satellite was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class built at the Hills shipyard, Sandwich, Kent, and launched in 1806. She foundered in December 1810 with the loss of all aboard.

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Career

Commander Harry Hopkins commissioned Satellite in March 1806, for the Downs. Commander Charles Payne replaced Hopkins in December. [1]

Still, on 7 October 1807, Satellite was under Hopkins's command when she recaptured the ship Brothers. [2] The next day, or possibly earlier on 21 August, Satellite captured the Christianhaab. [3]

On 15 November Satellite sailed for the Leeward Islands. In 1808 Commander James Rushworth assumed command. He sailed Satellite for Jamaica on 15 December 1808. However, in September she may have been under the command of Commander Robert Evans. Commander Henry Montressor assumed command in April 1809. His replacement, in 1810, was Commander the Honourable Willoughby Bertie. [1]

Fate

Satellite, under Bertie's command, [4] sailed from Spithead on Monday 17 December 1810 to join other ships that were cruising off La Hogue. On the Wednesday evening she was in company with HMS Vautour, but foundered during the night. In the morning Vautour picked up her empty boats and some spars that had been on deck, but found no other trace of Satellite. [5]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield (2008), p. 308.
  2. ↑ "No. 16172". The London Gazette . 16 August 1808. p. 1128.
  3. ↑ "No. 16228". The London Gazette . 11 February 1809. p. 196.
  4. ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 135.
  5. ↑ The Morning Chronicle, (London, England), Tuesday, 1 January 1811; Issue 12994.

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