HMS Moira (1805)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Charwell.
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name: HMS Moira (or Earl of Moira)
Builder: Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Ontario; M/Shipwright John Dennis[1]
Launched: 28 May 1805
Renamed: Charwell on 22 January 1814
Reclassified:
  • Re-rigged as brig in 1813
  • Powder hulk in 1816
  • Accommodation vessel in 1827
Fate: Sold in 1837
General characteristics
Class & type:
Tons burthen: 168 ​59⁄94 (bm)
Length: 70 ft 6 in (21.49 m) (overall); Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). (keel)
Beam: 23 ft 8 in (7.21 m)
Draught: 7 ft (2.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan:
Complement: 86 (in 1830)
Armament:
  • Launched as 14-guns
  • Rearmed with 16 guns in 1813: 2 × 9-pounder guns and 14 × 24-pounder carronades
  • After 1814 1 × 18-pounder replaced the 9-pounders and 2 carronades

HMS Moira (or HMS Earl of Moira) was a British 14-gun schooner of the Royal Navy, that plied the waters of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River during the War of 1812 Engagements on Lake Ontario. She was sold in 1837.

Career

She was launched on 28 May 1805 at Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Ontario to a design by Alexander Munn, and was named for the 1st Marquis of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (1754-1826). She was rebuilt in 1813, being re-rigged as a brig, and carrying 16 guns.

War of 1812

She was renamed Charwell on 22 January 1814.[1]

In May 1814, Charwell was part of Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo's squadron in the attack on the American fort at Oswego.

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Main article: Battle of Fort Oswego (1814)

She was then with the squadron while it blockaded Sackets Harbor, New York.

On 12 August Charwell (A.F. Spence), Magnet (Edward Collier), Netley (Lieutenant Charles Radcliffe), and Star (Alexander Dobbs), captured two American schooners, Somers and Ohio.[Note 1]

After the end of the war Charwell became a powder hulk from 1816 and an accommodation vessel in 1827.[1]

Fate

Charwell was sold in 1837.[1]

See also

Footnotes

Notes
  1. ↑ A first-class share of the head money paid in January 1819 was worth £13 6s 5¼d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 4s 0½d.[2]
Citations
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Winfield (2008), p.273.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 17439. p. 86. 12 January 1819.

References

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