HMS Rover (1808)

Rover
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rover
Ordered	9 December 1803
Builder	Joseph Todd, Berwick
Laid down	June 1804
Launched	13 February 1808
Fate	Sold 1828
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rover
Acquired	1828 by purchase
Fate	Last listed in 1848
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	38485⁄94, or 406 bm
Length	100 ft 4 in (30.6 m) (overall) 77 ft 4+3⁄8 in (23.6 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 7 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	110
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades 2 × 6-pounder bow guns

HMS Rover was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop laid down in 1804 but not launched until 1808. She served in the North Sea, off the north coast of Spain, in the Channel, and on the North American station. She captured two letters-of-marque and numerous merchant vessels before being laid-up in 1815. She then sat unused until she was sold in 1828. She became a whaler that made four voyages to the British southern whale fishery between 1830 and 1848. She was last listed in 1848.