HMS Basilisk (1801)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Basilisk
Ordered	7 January 1801
Builder	John Randall & Co., Rotherhithe
Laid down	January 1801
Launched	2 April 1801 (already coppered)
Completed	3 April to 19 April 1801 at Deptford
Stricken	sold 14 December 1815
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	12-gun Bloodhound-class gun-brig
Tons burthen	185 83⁄94 (bm)
Length	80 ft 1 in (24.4 m) (overall) 65 ft 7 in (20.0 m) (keel)
Beam	23 ft 1 in (7.0 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	50, including a detachment of 14 Royal Marines
Armament	10 × 18-pounder carronades 2 × 18-pounder or 32-pounder carronades as bow chasers

HMS Basilisk was a Bloodhound-class gun-brig built by Randall in Rotherhithe and launched in 1801. She served briefly at the end of the French Revolutionary Wars, with most of her service occurring during the Napoleonic Wars protecting convoys from privateers, conducting close-inshore surveillance and taking enemy coastal shipping. She was sold for breaking in 1815.