HMS Swift (1804)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Pacific
Owner	Peter & William Mellish
Builder	Rotherhithe
Launched	1802
Fate	Sold 1804
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Swift
Ordered	13 July 1807
Acquired	June 1804 by purchase
Fate	Sold 1814
United Kingdom
Name	Pacific
Owner	Various
Acquired	1814 by purchase
Fate	Wrecked in 1828 though still listed in 1833
General characteristics
Tons burthen	307, or 321, or 326, or 327
Length	Overall: 101 ft 10 in (31.0 m) ; keel: 84 ft 10+1⁄4 in (25.9 m);
Beam	26 ft 11 in (8.2 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	70 (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;

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.

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