HMS Swift (1804)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Swift.

History
United Kingdom
NamePacific
OwnerPeter & William Mellish
BuilderRotherhithe
Launched1802
FateSold 1804
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Swift
Ordered13 July 1807
AcquiredJune 1804 by purchase
FateSold 1814
United Kingdom
NamePacific
OwnerVarious
Acquired1814 by purchase
FateWrecked in 1828 though still listed in 1833
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen307,[2] or 321,[3] or 326,[4] or 327
Length
  • Overall: 101 ft 10 in (31.0 m)
  • keel: 84 ft 10+1⁄4 in (25.9 m)
Beam26 ft 11 in (8.2 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement70 (HMS)
Armament
  • HMS Swift
    • Upper deck: 16 × 12-pounder carronades
    • QD: 2 × 4-pounder guns
    • Fc: 2 × 4-pounder guns
  • Pacific: 6 × 6-pounder guns[4]

HMS Swift was the whaler Pacific launched in 1802 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1804 on her return from the Galápagos Islands. She served briefly in the Caribbean where she was involved in one notable capture of a Spanish garda-costa. She then served in the North Sea. The Navy laid her up July 1807, but then returned her to duty in 1810 as a storeship. The Navy sold her in 1814. She then resumed the name Pacific and returned to mercantile service. She was wrecked in 1828 but remained listed in 1833.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 263.
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