HMS Devastation (1804)

Devastation
History
United Kingdom
Name	Intrepid
Builder	Simon Temple Jnr, South Shields (Temple shipbuilders)
Launched	1803
Fate	Sold to Royal Navy in 1804
UK
Name	HMS Devastation
Acquired	By purchase, October 1804
Fate	Sold 1816
General characteristics [1]
Type	Bomb vessel
Tons burthen	445,[2] or 44565⁄94 (bm)
Length	104 ft 2 in (31.8 m) (overall) 84 ft 3 in (25.7 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 6+1⁄2 in (9.6 m)
Armament	1 × 13" + 1 × 10" mortars 2 × 24-pounder carronades + 6 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Devastation was an 8-gun British Royal Navy bomb vessel launched in 1803 at South Shields as the mercantile Intrepid. The Navy purchased her in 1804. She served in the English Channel, the Baltic, off the coast of Spain, and in the United States during the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812, most notably at the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore in September 1814. The Navy sold her in 1816.