HMS Gleaner (1809)

History
United Kingdom
NameGleaner
Launched1802
FateSold to Royal Navy, 1809
United Kingdom
NameHMS Gleaner
Acquired1809 by purchase
FateWrecked April 1814
General characteristics
Tons burthen1537994,[1] or 154[2] (bm)[1]
Sail planKetch
Complement30[2]
Armament
  • Survey vessel and yard lighter:2 × 12-pounder carronades[2]
  • Armed ketch: 14 × 12-pounder carronades[1]

HMS Gleaner was the mercantile ketch Gleaner, launched in 1802. She served the Royal Navy as the "hired ketch Gleaner" from 12 July 1808 until the Navy purchased her in 1809. Initially she served as a light vessel and survey vessel. From early 1811 to August 1811 she served in the Mediterranean, where she captured an Ottoman vessel. She then became a yard lighter and a light vessel again. Then in 1812 she was on the North American station where she participated in the capture of several merchant vessels. Next she returned to the Mediterranean where she captured a privateer. Finally, she served off the north coast of Spain where she was wrecked on 2 March 1814.

  1. ^ a b c Winfield (2008), p. 395.
  2. ^ a b c Winfield (2008), p. 399.