| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Advice |
| Ordered | 24 May 1800 |
| Builder | John Randall & Co., Rotherhithe |
| Laid down | July 1800 |
| Launched | 30 December 1800 |
| Fate | Lost 1804 or sold c.1805 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Express-class schooner |
| Type | schooner |
| Tons burthen | 17848⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
|
| Beam | 21 ft 6 in (6.6 m) |
| Depth of hold | 13 ft 1 in (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Complement | 30 |
| Armament | 6 × 12-pounder carronades |
HMS Advice was the second of a class of two schooner-rigged advice-boats of the Royal Navy. Advice was launched in 1800 and commissioned in January 1801 under Lieutenant William Robertson, for Jersey. In August 1802 she came under the command of Lieutenant Joseph Nourse. Advice (tender), of six cannons, was listed at being at Portsmouth on 2 October 1802, under the command of Lieutenant Nourse.[2] Nourse sailed her for Trinidad, leaving Portsmouth on 27 October. There she served as a tender to the colony.[3]
Advice's subsequent career and fate are uncertain. One source states that Advice's design proved unsatisfactory with the result that not only did the Navy not build any more vessels to that design, no commissioned officers followed Nourse in command of her. However, elsewhere the same source has Nourse commanding and sailing to Trinidad a different advice-boat/tender Advise, being followed in command by Lieutenant J. Salter.[4] However, another source has that Advice being last listed in 1799.[5] That vessel was probably laid up at Portsmouth circa 1800, prior to the launch of the Advice of this article, and was sold in 1807.
On 4 August 1803, Nourse, now a Commander, took command of Cyane. He was probably followed in command of Advice by Lieutenant Salter.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 355.
- ^ "Ship News" (5 October 1802) Morning Post, (London, England) Issue: 10609,
- ^ Marshall (1825), p. 879.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 357.
- ^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 5.