HMS Fly (1813)
HMS Fly (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched on 16 February 1813 and commissioned May 1813.
Fly when re-rigged as a ship sloop in 1822 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Fly |
| Builder | Jabez Bayley, Ipswich |
| Launched | 1813 |
| Commissioned | 1813 |
| Decommissioned | 1828 |
| Fate | Sold, 1828 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 38677⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 100 ft 5 in (30.6 m) o/a; 77 ft 9 in (23.7 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m) |
| Draught | 7 ft 7 in (2.3 m) (unladen); 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) (laden) |
| Sail plan | Brig |
| Complement | 121 |
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She served:
- on the Channel station under Sir William G. Parker from May 1813,
- on the Newfoundland Station from June 1814 until paid off in April 1815,
- on the Cork station, after recommissioning in 1818, until December 1821,
- on Cape of Good Hope Station from December 1821,
- in South America from 1823,
- in East Indies from 1825.
In December 1826 Fly, under Captain Frederick Augustus Wetherall, supported the short-lived settlement of Western Port, in southern Victoria, Australia.
She was sold in Bombay on 10 April 1828.
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