HMS Pelorus (1808)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Pelorus.

HMS Pelorus, as a ship-sloop, ca. 1830
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Pelorus
BuilderItchenor, England
Launched25 June 1808
Honours and
awards
Fate
  • Wrecked, 25 November 1839; refloated
  • Sold, 1842
  • Wrecked, 25 December 1844
General characteristics [3]
Class and typeCruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen38460⁄94(bm)
Length
  • 100 ft (30.5 m) (overall)
  • 77 ft 3+3⁄4 in (23.6 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Complement121
Armament

HMS Pelorus was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. She was built in Itchenor, England and launched on 25 June 1808. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and in the War of 1812. On anti-slavery patrol off West Africa, she captured four slavers and freed some 1350 slaves. She charted parts of Australia and New Zealand and participated in the First Opium War (1839–1842) before becoming a merchantman and wrecking in 1844 while transporting opium to China.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 242.
  2. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 243.
  3. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 299.