HMS Surly (1806)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Surly
Ordered	29 March 1806
Builder	Joseph Johnson, Dover
Laid down	July 1806
Launched	15 November 1806
Commissioned	12 December 1806
Reclassified	Lighter 1833–1837
Fate	Sold out of service, January 1837
General characteristics
Class and type	Cheerful-class cutter
Tons burthen	13739⁄94 (bm)
Length	63 feet (19 m) (gundeck) 46 feet 9+3⁄8 inches (14.259 m) (keel)
Beam	23 feet 6 inches (7.16 m)
Depth of hold	10 feet (3 m)
Complement	50 men
Armament	12 guns: Gundeck: 2 × 4-pounder guns, 10x 12-pounder carronades

HMS Surly was a Cheerful-class cutter built in 1806. Carrying 12 guns she served during the Napoleonic Wars and helped to capture a French privateer in 1809. In 1825 she was employed in carrying quantities of coin between Dublin and London and also in suppressing strike action by seamen on the River Wear. Her duties assisting the civil authorities at the Wear and later on the River Tyne extended into 1827. Surly later served on the Scottish coast and on anti-smuggling patrols in the Thames Estuary. She was refitted as a lighter in 1833 and sold out of service in 1837.