HMS Speedwell (1815)

History
United Kingdom
NameRoyal George
FateSold 1815
United Kingdom
NameHMS Speedwell
Acquired1815 by purchase
FateSold 1834
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen2033294 (bm)
Length80 ft 0 in (24.4 m) (overall); 61 ft 2 in (18.6 m) (keel)
Beam25 ft 0 in (7.6 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 3+12 in (3.4 m)
Sail planSchooner
Complementc.50
Armament1 × 18-pounder gun + 4 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Speedwell was the mercantile Royal George, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1815 and converted to a 5-gun schooner. During her career in the West Indies, she helped capture or destroy a number of pirate vessels, and capture several slave ships transporting enslaved people. The Royal Navy sold her at Jamaica in 1834.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 371.