HMS Bold (1801)

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Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Bold
Ordered: 30 December 1800
Builder: Wells & Co, Blackwall Yard
Laid down: January 1801
Launched: 16 April 1801
Completed: By 9 May 1801
Fate: Broken up in April 1811
General characteristics
Class and type: Archer-class gunvessel
Tons burthen: 179 29/94 bm
Length: 80 ft 8 in (24.6 m) (overall)
65 ft 10.25 in (20.1 m) (keel)
Beam: 22 ft 7.5 in (6.9 m)
Depth of hold: 9 ft (2.74320 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: brig
Complement: 50
Armament:

HMS Bold was a 14-gun Archer-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy built at Blackwall Yard.

Service

In 1802, under Lieutenant William Chivers, Bold participated in the capture of the 17-gun privateer Contre-Amiral Mayon in the North Sea.

On 15 March 1805 she and the brig-sloop Cruizer captured the Rostock vessel Elanora Charlotta as a prize.

From 1807 to 1811 she was again under the command of Lieutenant Chivers. In 1810, boats from Bold, Manly, Desirée and Quebec, under the command of Lt. Samuel Radford of Desirée, destroyed a 6-gun privateer and took two other armed vessels in the Vlie.[1]

Fate

Bold ran aground near Yarmouth, Isle of Wight in a gale on 6 January 1811 but the crew was saved. She was broken up at Sheerness in April that year.

Notes

  1. The New Navy List. 1842. p. 145.

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