HMS Spey (1814)

Spey
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Spey
Namesake	River Spey
Ordered	18 November 1812
Builder	James Warwick, Eling
Laid down	May 1813
Launched	8 January 1814
Fate	Sold 1822
Gran Colombia
Name	Boyacá
Namesake	Battle of Boyacá
Owner	Navy of Gran Colombia
Acquired	1822 by purchase
Fate	Laid up 1826
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Cyrus-class ship-sloop
Type	Ship-sloop
Tons burthen	46344⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall:115 ft 8+3⁄8 in (35.3 m) Keel:97 ft 4+1⁄2 in (29.7 m)
Beam	29 ft 11 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Crew	135
Armament	Upper deck:20 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns

HMS Spey was a sixth rate post ship, launched for the Royal Navy in 1814 towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She had a short naval career, serving on the St Helena and Malta stations. While on the Malta Station in 1819, she was instrumental in the apprehension of a British pirate vessel.

The Navy sold Spey in 1822. She then was sold to the government of Gran Colombia and renamed Boyacá. The vessel participated in the Battle of Lake Maracaibo in 1823, and took part in the capture of numerous Spanish vessels, including the Spanish frigate Ceres, in 1824. She was laid up in 1827, and thereafter disappears from naval records.