HMS Nimrod (1812)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Nimrod
Ordered	26 September 1811
Builder	Jabez Bayley, Ipswich
Laid down	November 1811
Launched	25 May 1812
Fate	Sold 1827
United Kingdom
Port of registry	London Liverpool
Acquired	1827 by purchase
Fate	No longer listed in Lloyd's Register (LR) after 1851
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	38422⁄94, or 369; 469 after 1827 lengthening[2] (bm)
Length	100 ft 0 in (30.5 m) (overall) 77 ft 2+3⁄4 in (23.5 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 7 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 10 in (3.91 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades 2 × 6-pounder chase guns

HMS Nimrod was a brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1812. She spent her war years in North American waters, where she captured one small privateer, assisted in the capture of another, and captured or destroyed some 50 American vessels. After the war she captured smugglers and assisted the civil authorities in maintaining order in Tyne. She was wrecked in 1827 and so damaged that the Navy decided she was not worth repairing. A private ship-owner purchased Nimrod and repaired her. She then went on to spend some 20 years trading between Britain and Charleston, the Mediterranean, Australia, and India. She was last listed in 1851.