HMS Leveret (1806)
HMS Leveret (1806) was a Cruizer class brig-sloop built by John King at Dover and launched in 1806.
She was commissioned under Cmdr. George Salt. She sailed for the Mediterranean in April 1807 and was off Cadiz in July. Later she sailed to the Baltic. In October Cmdr. Richard James Laurence O’Connor took command. She was under his command when she wrecked on the Galloper Rock near Great Yarmouth during a gale on 10 November.[1] No lives were lost. She had been ordered to see Waldemaar, a Danish 84, safely into port.
The court martial held on board Magnanime in Sheerness Harbour on 18 November 1807 ruled that O’Connor, his officers and his crew had made every exertion to save their ship once she had struck. Rear Admiral Wells, Commander-in-Chief Sheerness, then charged that O’Connor had not helped a frigate “on her beam ends” on the Long Sand on the 10th. The court ruled that O’Connor was blameless as the evidence was clear that he was fully occupied in the attempt to save his own vessel. O’Connor’s next command was the 18-gun brig Ned Elven.
References
- ↑ Gossett (1986), p.61.
- Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London:Mansell). ISBN 0-7201-1816-6
- Michael Phillips’ “Ships of the Old Navy"
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1861762461.
