HMS Vesta (1806)
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HMS Vesta was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806. She appears to have had an astonishingly uneventful decade-long career before the Admiralty sold her in 1816. She became a merchantman, sailing between the United Kingdom and Newfoundland until May 1823 when she sank after hitting an iceberg.
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Name | HMS Vesta |
Ordered | 2 April 1804 |
Builder | Bermuda |
Launched | 1806 |
Commissioned | October 1806 |
Fate | Sold 1816 |
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Name | Sylvia |
Owner |
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Acquired | c.1816 by purchase |
Fate | Sunk May 1823 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Adonis-class |
Tons burthen | 110 93⁄94, or 138[2] bm |
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Beam | 20 ft 4 in (6.2 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) |
Sail plan | Schooner |
Complement | 35 |
Armament | 10 × 18-pounder carronades |
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