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HMS Redwing (1806)

January 01, 1970

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

HMS Redwing was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1806, she saw active service in the Napoleonic Wars, mostly in the Mediterranean, and afterwards served off the West Coast of Africa, acting to suppress the slave trade. She was lost at sea in 1827.

Redwing
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Redwing
Ordered24 January 1806
BuilderMatthew Warren, Brightlingsea
Launched30 August 1806
CommissionedOctober 1806
Honours and
awards
FateFoundered 1827
General characteristics
Class and typeCruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen38346⁄94 (bm)[3]
Length100 ft 0 in (30.5 m) (overall); 77 ft 3+1⁄2 in (23.6 m)
Beam30 ft 6+1⁄2 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 10 in (3.9 m)
Sail planBrig
Complement121
Armament

The Mediterranean in wartime edit

Redwing was built by Matthew Warren at Brightlingsea, Essex, and launched on 30 August 1806. She was commissioned in October 1806 under Commander Thomas Ussher, and on 31 January 1807, sailed for the Mediterranean.[4] There she was stationed in the Strait of Gibraltar, and operated in company with Scout and Morgiana to clear the area of enemy vessels. The Commander in Chief, Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, in a letter to William Marsden, dated 24 May 1807, praised their effectiveness, noting that "within this Fortnight past they have taken and destroyed Eighteen of the Enemy's Vessels".[5] One of these may have been the mistico Tiger, which Redwing intercepted as she was sailing from Cadiz to Algeciras. Redwing sent her into Gibraltar.[6]

Numerous captures and actions followed.

  • On 13 June 1807 Redwing and Scout chased a felucca and the Spanish privateer De Bon Vassallio, which mounted one 24 and two 6-pounder guns, into the mouth of the River Barbate, south of Cadiz. They then sent their boats to board and destroy the privateer. They also captured and destroyed two signal posts.[7]
  • On 22 September, Redwing and two boats from Excellent captured the merchant ship Paulina, and on 3 October 1807 Redwing took the Twillingen.[8]
  • On 2 March 1808 Redwing and Confounder captured the American ship Ocean, and on 12 April 1808 Redwing and Minorca captured the American ship Hope.[9]
  • In early 1808, or so, Redwing captured the Charlotta, Ferrier, master, which had sailed from La Guayra, and sent her into Gibraltar.[10]
  • On 7 May, she attacked a Spanish convoy of seven gun-boats and armed vessels, and 12 unarmed merchantmen off Cape Trafalgar. In a short but vigorous action she drove four gun-boats ashore and sank them, captured one, and two escaped. The gunboats sunk included Diligent, of two 24-pounder guns, two 8-pounders, and 60 men, Boreas of the same strength, No. 3, of two 24-pounders, one 36-pounder and 36 men, and No. 6, of one 24-pounder and 40 men. Redwing also captured a mistico of four 6-pounders and 20 men. Gunboat No. 107, of two 6-poundrs and 35 men, and a felucca of four 3-pounders and 20 men, escaped. Redwing then sank four of the merchantmen and captured seven; one escaped.[4][11][12] Redwing lost one man killed and had three men wounded, one severely. For this action in 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Redwing 7 May 1808" to the seven still surviving claimants from the action.

At the end of the month, Redwing engaged in another medal-winning action. She chased a mistico and two feluccas into the Bay of Bolonia (Tarifa). There her quarry took shelter under a shore battery of six 24-pounder guns. Ussher brought Redwing to anchor within point-blank range of the battery, using her broadsides to silence its guns. A cutting-out party under Lieutenant Ferguson then destroyed the mistico and extracted the feluccas. Ussher and Ferguson, with a landing party of 40 men, then captured the battery and spiked its guns. This, and his previous actions, led to Ussher's promotion to post captain.[13] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the NGSM with clasp "Redwing 31 May 1808" to the five surviving claimants from the action.

Commander Edward Augustus Down then took command of Redwing in August and sailed her to the Mediterranean on 23 September 1808.[3]

  • On 8 February 1809, the boats of Redwing and the frigate Amphion, under the command of William Hoste, cut out an armed brig and a coaster at Melada in Dalmatia, then part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.[4][14][15]
  • On 16 September 1811 Redwing, captured the French 4-gun privateer, Le Victorieux, off Sicily, three days out of Tunis.[4][16]
  • On 8 May 1812, off Cape St. Vieto, Redwing took a small Neapolitan privateer of one gun.[17]

Command of Redwing passed to Commander Sir John Gordon Sinclair in August 1812[3] and she operated off the south coast of France, taking part in numerous operations:

  • On 18 March 1813, seamen and marines of Redwing, under the command of Lieutenant Aaron Tozer, landed on the French coast and destroyed a coastal battery consisting of four 24-pounder guns, a 6-pounder field-gun, and a 13-inch mortar at Carry-le-Rouet, west of Marseille, before capturing a tartane, anchored nearby.[18]
  • On 31 March 1813, an attack was made, under the command of Lieutenant Shaw of Volontaire, by the marines of the frigates Volontaire and Undaunted, and the brigs Redwing and Shearwater on a strongpoint at Morgion, near Marseille. The marines landed during the night, and at daybreak captured two batteries. They threw the guns, five 36-pounders in one, and two 24-pounders in the other, into the sea, and destroyed all their ammunition. The boats of the ships then captured eight tartanes and three settees, laden with oil, nuts, hides and firewood, while Redwing provided close protection. Casualties amounted to only one man killed and four wounded, while the French lost four killed, five wounded, and a lieutenant and 16 men of the 62nd Regiment taken prisoner.[18]
  • On 3 April, Nautilus and Redwing captured the Greek vessel St. Nicolo, and took her into Malta.[19]
  • On 2 May boats from Redwing, Undaunted, Volontaire, and Repulse again stormed the batteries at Morgion. This action led the Admiralty to issue Redwing a third clasp, marked "2 May Boat Service 1813", to the NGSM for her part in this action.[4]
  • On 24 May Redwing, Nautilus and Carlotta captured the privateer Columbo.[a]
  • On 18 August, a landing party made up of men from Redwing, Espoir, and the frigate Undaunted, stormed shore batteries at Cassis, east of Marseille,[4] and captured three pinnaces.[21]
  • On 14 December 1813, Redwing captured the Boa Fe Nova.[22] This may be the same vessel as the Boa Fé Saltaza, which had been sailing from Rio de Janeiro to Oporto and which Redwing captured and sent into Portsmouth some days later.[23]

Post-war edit

In August 1814, Commander Thomas Young was appointed to command Redwing.[3] She was paid off in 1815.

By 1817 she was laid up at Deptford,[4] but was recommissioned in 1818 under C. Simeon.[4] By August of that year she was under the command of Commander Frederick Hunn at Saint Helena,[4] and commissioned in November 1820 under the command of the Honourable George Rolle Walpole Trefusis.[4][b] From February 1824 she was under the command of Adolphus FitzClarence at the Nore until paid off in January 1825.[4]

West Africa edit

In January 1825[4] Commander Douglas Clavering, who in 1823 in HMS Griper had led a scientific expedition to Svalbard and Greenland, was appointed captain of Redwing,[24] and assigned to the West Africa Squadron, engaged in the suppression of the slave trade.[25]

She made several captures:

  • On 9 September 1825 the ships HMS Atholl, Esk, and Redwing captured the Brazilian slave-vessel Uniao.[26]
  • On 6 October 1825 Redwing captured the Spanish brigantine Isabella with 273 slaves aboard.[27]
  • That same day Redwing captured the Spanish schooner Ana, and five days later Teresa. with 199 slaves.[3] Prize money for the hulls and cargoes, and bounty for released slaves, was paid on 25 April 1827.[c]

Disappearance and fate edit

Redwing sailed from Sierra Leone in June 1827 and was never seen again. Wreckage washed ashore in November near Mataceney suggested that lightning had started a fire that destroyed her.[29]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Carlotta did not share in the head-money for the capture. Furthermore, because her captain was a lieutenant, and the captains of the other two vessels were commanders, Fleming was only entitled to a second-class share, while the other two were entitled to first-class shares. Fleming's second-class share was worth £8 15s 1¼d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 5s 10½d. A first-class share to Nautilus and Redwing was worth £27 6s 2½d; a sixth-class share was worth 7s 6½d.[20]
  2. ^ For more on George Rolle Walpole Trefusis see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Trefusis, George Rolle Walpole" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
  3. ^ The captain received £1,006 11s 6d, while ordinary seamen received £7 13s 7½d each.[28]

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 241.
  2. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 247.
  3. ^ a b c d e Winfield (2008), pp. 296–7.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l (PDF). Warship Histories, vol iii. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
  5. ^ "No. 16048". The London Gazette. 18 July 1807. p. 960.
  6. ^ "Lloyd's List". 19 May 1807. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  7. ^ "No. 16071". The London Gazette. 26 September 1807. p. 1277.
  8. ^ "No. 16557". The London Gazette. 4 January 1812. p. 8.
  9. ^ "No. 16456". The London Gazette. 16 February 1811. p. 319.
  10. ^ "Lloyd's List". 2 May 1808. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  11. ^ "No. 16148". The London Gazette. 24 May 1808. pp. 735–736.
  12. ^ James, Vol.V, pp.47–48
  13. ^ Long (1895), p. 144.
  14. ^ "No. 16253". The London Gazette. 2 May 1809. p. 622.
  15. ^ James, Vol.V, p.153
  16. ^ "No. 16540". The London Gazette. 12 November 1811. p. 2193.
  17. ^ "No. 16624". The London Gazette. 18 July 1812. p. 1397.
  18. ^ a b "No. 16740". The London Gazette. 12 June 1813. p. 1148.
  19. ^ "No. 17212". The London Gazette. 25 January 1817. p. 159.
  20. ^ "No. 17063". The London Gazette. 19 September 1815. p. 1930.
  21. ^ "No. 17815". The London Gazette. 7 May 1822. p. 759.
  22. ^ "No. 16871". The London Gazette. 19 March 1814. p. 604.
  23. ^ "Lloyd's List". 24 December 1813. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  24. ^ "Douglas Clavering: Biographical History". Archives Hub. 2012. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  25. ^ Hepper (1994), p. 159.
  26. ^ "No. 18439". The London Gazette. 5 February 1828. p. 241.
  27. ^ "No. 18404". The London Gazette. 12 October 1827. p. 2098.
  28. ^ "No. 18353". The London Gazette. 17 April 1827. p. 868.
  29. ^ Gosset (1986), p. 102.

References edit

  • Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • James, William (1837), Naval History of Great Britain. Richard Bentley: London
  • Long, William H. (1895). Medals of the British navy and how they were won: with a list of those officers, who for their gallant conduct were granted honorary swords and plate by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund. London: Norie & Wilson.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.

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For other ships with the same name see HMS Redwing HMS Redwing was a Cruizer class brig sloop of the British Royal Navy Commissioned in 1806 she saw active service in the Napoleonic Wars mostly in the Mediterranean and afterwards served off the West Coast of Africa acting to suppress the slave trade She was lost at sea in 1827 RedwingHistory United Kingdom NameHMS Redwing Ordered24 January 1806 BuilderMatthew Warren Brightlingsea Launched30 August 1806 CommissionedOctober 1806 Honours andawardsNaval General Service Medal with clasps Redwing 7 May 1808 1 Redwing 31 May 1808 1 2 May Boat Service 1813 2 FateFoundered 1827 General characteristics Class and typeCruizer class brig sloop Tons burthen38346 94 bm 3 Length100 ft 0 in 30 5 m overall 77 ft 3 1 2 in 23 6 m Beam30 ft 6 1 2 in 9 3 m Depth of hold12 ft 10 in 3 9 m Sail planBrig Complement121 Armament16 32 pounder carronades 2 6 pounder bow guns Contents 1 The Mediterranean in wartime 2 Post war 2 1 West Africa 3 Disappearance and fate 4 Notes 5 Citations 6 ReferencesThe Mediterranean in wartime editRedwing was built by Matthew Warren at Brightlingsea Essex and launched on 30 August 1806 She was commissioned in October 1806 under Commander Thomas Ussher and on 31 January 1807 sailed for the Mediterranean 4 There she was stationed in the Strait of Gibraltar and operated in company with Scout and Morgiana to clear the area of enemy vessels The Commander in Chief Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood in a letter to William Marsden dated 24 May 1807 praised their effectiveness noting that within this Fortnight past they have taken and destroyed Eighteen of the Enemy s Vessels 5 One of these may have been the mistico Tiger which Redwing intercepted as she was sailing from Cadiz to Algeciras Redwing sent her into Gibraltar 6 Numerous captures and actions followed On 13 June 1807 Redwing and Scout chased a felucca and the Spanish privateer De Bon Vassallio which mounted one 24 and two 6 pounder guns into the mouth of the River Barbate south of Cadiz They then sent their boats to board and destroy the privateer They also captured and destroyed two signal posts 7 On 22 September Redwing and two boats from Excellent captured the merchant ship Paulina and on 3 October 1807 Redwing took the Twillingen 8 On 2 March 1808 Redwing and Confounder captured the American ship Ocean and on 12 April 1808 Redwing and Minorca captured the American ship Hope 9 In early 1808 or so Redwing captured the Charlotta Ferrier master which had sailed from La Guayra and sent her into Gibraltar 10 On 7 May she attacked a Spanish convoy of seven gun boats and armed vessels and 12 unarmed merchantmen off Cape Trafalgar In a short but vigorous action she drove four gun boats ashore and sank them captured one and two escaped The gunboats sunk included Diligent of two 24 pounder guns two 8 pounders and 60 men Boreas of the same strength No 3 of two 24 pounders one 36 pounder and 36 men and No 6 of one 24 pounder and 40 men Redwing also captured a mistico of four 6 pounders and 20 men Gunboat No 107 of two 6 poundrs and 35 men and a felucca of four 3 pounders and 20 men escaped Redwing then sank four of the merchantmen and captured seven one escaped 4 11 12 Redwing lost one man killed and had three men wounded one severely For this action in 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal NGSM with clasp Redwing 7 May 1808 to the seven still surviving claimants from the action At the end of the month Redwing engaged in another medal winning action She chased a mistico and two feluccas into the Bay of Bolonia Tarifa There her quarry took shelter under a shore battery of six 24 pounder guns Ussher brought Redwing to anchor within point blank range of the battery using her broadsides to silence its guns A cutting out party under Lieutenant Ferguson then destroyed the mistico and extracted the feluccas Ussher and Ferguson with a landing party of 40 men then captured the battery and spiked its guns This and his previous actions led to Ussher s promotion to post captain 13 In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the NGSM with clasp Redwing 31 May 1808 to the five surviving claimants from the action Commander Edward Augustus Down then took command of Redwing in August and sailed her to the Mediterranean on 23 September 1808 3 On 8 February 1809 the boats of Redwing and the frigate Amphion under the command of William Hoste cut out an armed brig and a coaster at Melada in Dalmatia then part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy 4 14 15 On 16 September 1811 Redwing captured the French 4 gun privateer Le Victorieux off Sicily three days out of Tunis 4 16 On 8 May 1812 off Cape St Vieto Redwing took a small Neapolitan privateer of one gun 17 Command of Redwing passed to Commander Sir John Gordon Sinclair in August 1812 3 and she operated off the south coast of France taking part in numerous operations On 18 March 1813 seamen and marines of Redwing under the command of Lieutenant Aaron Tozer landed on the French coast and destroyed a coastal battery consisting of four 24 pounder guns a 6 pounder field gun and a 13 inch mortar at Carry le Rouet west of Marseille before capturing a tartane anchored nearby 18 On 31 March 1813 an attack was made under the command of Lieutenant Shaw of Volontaire by the marines of the frigates Volontaire and Undaunted and the brigs Redwing and Shearwater on a strongpoint at Morgion near Marseille The marines landed during the night and at daybreak captured two batteries They threw the guns five 36 pounders in one and two 24 pounders in the other into the sea and destroyed all their ammunition The boats of the ships then captured eight tartanes and three settees laden with oil nuts hides and firewood while Redwing provided close protection Casualties amounted to only one man killed and four wounded while the French lost four killed five wounded and a lieutenant and 16 men of the 62nd Regiment taken prisoner 18 On 3 April Nautilus and Redwing captured the Greek vessel St Nicolo and took her into Malta 19 On 2 May boats from Redwing Undaunted Volontaire and Repulse again stormed the batteries at Morgion This action led the Admiralty to issue Redwing a third clasp marked 2 May Boat Service 1813 to the NGSM for her part in this action 4 On 24 May Redwing Nautilus and Carlotta captured the privateer Columbo a On 18 August a landing party made up of men from Redwing Espoir and the frigate Undaunted stormed shore batteries at Cassis east of Marseille 4 and captured three pinnaces 21 On 14 December 1813 Redwing captured the Boa Fe Nova 22 This may be the same vessel as the Boa Fe Saltaza which had been sailing from Rio de Janeiro to Oporto and which Redwing captured and sent into Portsmouth some days later 23 Post war editIn August 1814 Commander Thomas Young was appointed to command Redwing 3 She was paid off in 1815 By 1817 she was laid up at Deptford 4 but was recommissioned in 1818 under C Simeon 4 By August of that year she was under the command of Commander Frederick Hunn at Saint Helena 4 and commissioned in November 1820 under the command of the Honourable George Rolle Walpole Trefusis 4 b From February 1824 she was under the command of Adolphus FitzClarence at the Nore until paid off in January 1825 4 West Africa edit In January 1825 4 Commander Douglas Clavering who in 1823 in HMS Griper had led a scientific expedition to Svalbard and Greenland was appointed captain of Redwing 24 and assigned to the West Africa Squadron engaged in the suppression of the slave trade 25 She made several captures On 9 September 1825 the ships HMS Atholl Esk and Redwing captured the Brazilian slave vessel Uniao 26 On 6 October 1825 Redwing captured the Spanish brigantine Isabella with 273 slaves aboard 27 That same day Redwing captured the Spanish schooner Ana and five days later Teresa with 199 slaves 3 Prize money for the hulls and cargoes and bounty for released slaves was paid on 25 April 1827 c Disappearance and fate editRedwing sailed from Sierra Leone in June 1827 and was never seen again Wreckage washed ashore in November near Mataceney suggested that lightning had started a fire that destroyed her 29 Notes edit Carlotta did not share in the head money for the capture Furthermore because her captain was a lieutenant and the captains of the other two vessels were commanders Fleming was only entitled to a second class share while the other two were entitled to first class shares Fleming s second class share was worth 8 15s 1 d a sixth class share that of an ordinary seaman was worth 5s 10 d A first class share to Nautilus and Redwing was worth 27 6s 2 d a sixth class share was worth 7s 6 d 20 For more on George Rolle Walpole Trefusis see O Byrne William R 1849 Trefusis George Rolle Walpole A Naval Biographical Dictionary London John Murray The captain received 1 006 11s 6d while ordinary seamen received 7 13s 7 d each 28 Citations edit a b No 20939 The London Gazette 26 January 1849 p 241 No 20939 The London Gazette 26 January 1849 p 247 a b c d e Winfield 2008 pp 296 7 a b c d e f g h i j k l NMM vessel ID 374360 PDF Warship Histories vol iii National Maritime Museum Archived from the original PDF on 10 October 2015 Retrieved 19 February 2011 No 16048 The London Gazette 18 July 1807 p 960 Lloyd s List 19 May 1807 Retrieved 12 November 2013 No 16071 The London Gazette 26 September 1807 p 1277 No 16557 The London Gazette 4 January 1812 p 8 No 16456 The London Gazette 16 February 1811 p 319 Lloyd s List 2 May 1808 Retrieved 13 November 2013 No 16148 The London Gazette 24 May 1808 pp 735 736 James Vol V pp 47 48 Long 1895 p 144 No 16253 The London Gazette 2 May 1809 p 622 James Vol V p 153 No 16540 The London Gazette 12 November 1811 p 2193 No 16624 The London Gazette 18 July 1812 p 1397 a b No 16740 The London Gazette 12 June 1813 p 1148 No 17212 The London Gazette 25 January 1817 p 159 No 17063 The London Gazette 19 September 1815 p 1930 No 17815 The London Gazette 7 May 1822 p 759 No 16871 The London Gazette 19 March 1814 p 604 Lloyd s List 24 December 1813 Retrieved 13 November 2013 Douglas Clavering Biographical History Archives Hub 2012 Archived from the original on 7 July 2012 Retrieved 1 February 2012 Hepper 1994 p 159 No 18439 The London Gazette 5 February 1828 p 241 No 18404 The London Gazette 12 October 1827 p 2098 No 18353 The London Gazette 17 April 1827 p 868 Gosset 1986 p 102 References editGosset William Patrick 1986 The lost ships of the Royal Navy 1793 1900 Mansell ISBN 0 7201 1816 6 Hepper David J 1994 British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650 1859 Rotherfield Jean Boudriot ISBN 0 948864 30 3 James William 1837 Naval History of Great Britain Richard Bentley London Long William H 1895 Medals of the British navy and how they were won with a list of those officers who for their gallant conduct were granted honorary swords and plate by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund London Norie amp Wilson Winfield Rif 2008 British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 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