HMS Renegade (1823)

History
Launched1820, United States
RenamedZaragozana
Captured31 March 1823
United Kingdom
NameHMS Renegade
Acquired1823 by purchase of a prize
FateSold 1 January 1826
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen115, or 120 (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 76 ft 5 in (23.3 m)
  • Keel: 59 ft 10+14 in (18.2 m)
Beam
  • 1): 19 ft 2 in (5.8 m)
  • 2): 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m) (for tonnage)
Depth of hold7 ft 4 in (2.2 m)
Complement
  • Pirate: 70–75
  • Royal Navy:35, or 37
Armament
  • Pirate: 1 × 18-pounder gun on a pivot mount + 4 × 9-pounder guns + eight swivel guns.[2]
  • Royal Navy
    • 1): 2 × 12-pounder + 2 × 32-pounder carronades[1]
    • 2): 2 × 12-pounder carronades + 2 × 32-pounder guns on pivot mounts[3]

HMS Renegade was a schooner built in the United States in 1820, or possibly even earlier. She had been the pirate ship Zaragozana operating out of Havana that the British Royal Navy captured on 31 March 1823, and took into service. The Navy sold HMS Renegade in January 1826.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2014), p. 272.
  2. ^ James (1902), p. 271.
  3. ^ Boteler (1883), p. 127.