HMS Brazen (1808)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Brazen
Ordered	6 November 1794; cancelled 1799 and re-ordered later
Builder	Master shipwright Nicholas Diddams, Portsmouth Dockyard[1]
Laid down	15 June 1807
Launched	26 May 1808
Fate	Broken up July 1848
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Bittern-class ship-sloop
Tons burthen	42157⁄94 (bm)
Length	110 ft 3 in (33.6 m) (gundeck) 90 ft 9+7⁄8 in (27.7 m) (keel)
Beam	29 ft 6+1⁄2 in (9.0 m)
Draught	Unladen: 8 ft 0 in (2.4 m) Laden: 11 ft 9 in (3.6 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Upperdeck: 18 × 32-pounder carronades QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Brazen was a 28-gun Royal Navy Bittern-class ship sloop, launched in 1808.^[1]

Though she served during the Napoleonic Wars, she appears to have missed any combat whatsoever and to have taken few prizes in that conflict. However, in the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom she captured Beaver and Warren in the Gulf of Mexico, but Warren was wrecked on Grand Gosier Island, near New Orleans, in a hurricane. Brazen suffered severe damage in the hurricane and, after local repair, was recalled to England for a survey.

After the survey she escorted convoys to Canada and back and recaptured Daphne. She then carried the Duke of Brunswick to Holland and patrolled the Irish Sea until her return to the West Indies Station. In 1815, she carried the news of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, to British troops that had captured Fort Bowyer and assisted in carrying them to England. After the war she took part in surveys of the Venezuelan coast and patrolled the Gulf of Mexico, capturing several prizes.

In the 1820s she served with the West Africa Squadron working to suppress the slave trade. In this service she captured numerous slavers and liberated over 2,000 slaves. Brazen ended her career as a floating chapel and was broken up in 1848.