HMS Ethalion (1802)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ethalion.
History
Name: HMS Ethalion
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Launched: 29 July 1802[1]
Commissioned: 1803
Decommissioned: 1816
In service:
  • As hospital ship, 1823
  • As breakwater, 1860s
Fate: Broken up, 1877
General characteristics
Type: Fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen: 996 tons bm[1]
Armament: 36 guns

HMS Ethalion was a Royal Navy 36-gun frigate, launched in 1802 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was eventually broken up in 1877.

Service

Ethalion entered service in 1803 under Captain Charles Stuart, operating in the North Sea. In May 1804 she captured the 16-gun Dutch brig Union off Bergen. In 1807, command passed to William Charles Fahie, who took Ethalion to the West Indies.

In December 1807 Ethalion was part of the squadron under Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane that captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless.

Ethalion also participated in the invasion of Martinique in 1809 under Captain Thomas John Cochrane.

In April 1809, a strong French squadron arrived at the Îles des Saintes, south of Guadeloupe. There they were blockaded until 14 April, when a British force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in Acasta, invaded and captured the islands.[2] Ethalion played a distant part in the Action of 14–17 April 1809.

Even so, she was among the naval vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the islands.[Note 1]

In 1810, Ethalion briefly paid off, before returning to service in 1811 off Lisbon under Captain Heywood and then in the Baltic Sea. On 12 April 1812, Ethalion and Clio captured the Opsloe.[4]

Ethalion sailed from the St Lawrence River on 12 November 1813, but bad weather dispersed the vessels. She recaptured the Pomona (or Pomone), of Teignmouth, on 14 December off the coast of Ireland.Pomona had been a prize to the American privateer Prince de Neufchatel.[5][Note 2]

In 1814 Ethalion was operating under Captain William Hugh Dobbie off the Irish Coast and in 1816 was placed in reserve at Woolwich.

Fate

In 1823 Ethalion was converted to a hospital ship, which she remained until becoming a breakwater in the 1860s. She was eventually broken up in 1877.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
  1. ↑ The prize agent for a number of the vessels involved, Henry Abbott, went bankrupt. In May 1835 there was a final payment of a dividend from his estate. A first-class share was worth 10s 2¾d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 1d. Seventh-class (landsmen) and eighth-class (boys) shares were fractions of a penny, too small to pay.[3]
  2. ↑ A first-class share was worth £230 12s 10d; a sixth-class share was worth £1 8s 8¼d.[6]
Citations
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16262. pp. 779–782. 30 May 1809.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 19255. p. 643. 3 April 1835.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16683. p. 2551. 19 December 1812. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Lloyd's List 24 December 1813[1] - accessed 12 November 2013.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16929. p. 1740. 27 August 1814.
References


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