HMS Spider (1806)

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Spider
Acquired1806 by purchase of a prize
FateBroken up 1815
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen269 (bm)
Complement85
Armament14 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 ×6-pounder chase guns

HMS Spider was a brig-rigged Spanish sloop that the British Royal Navy captured in 1806 and took into service. She served in the Mediterranean and the West Indies and captured a small number of merchantmen. She was broken up in 1815.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 321.