HMS Anacreon (1813)

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

HMS Anacreon had an extremely brief career. She was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year.

Anacreon
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Anacreon
Namesake	Anacreon
Ordered	12 July 1805
Builder	Initially: Owen, Ringmore, South Devon Later:After Owen went bankrupt, master shipwright Joseph Tucker at Plymouth Dockyard completed the construction
Laid down	Initially:July 1809 Later:August 1810 After Owen's bankruptcy, what was on the stocks was taken apart and moved to Plymouth Dockyard, where work resumed
Launched	1 May 1813
Fate	Foundered without a trace in 1814
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Revived Cormorant-class sloop
Tons burthen	42713⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall:108 ft 9 in (33.1 m) Keel:91 ft 1+3⁄8 in (27.8 m)
Beam	29 ft 8+1⁄4 in (9.0 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Complement	121 (Royal Navy)
Armament	Upper deck:16 × 32-pounder carronades QD:6 × 18-pounder carronades Fc:2 × 6-pounder chase guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

Career

Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned her in May 1813,^[1] but she had apparently already been in service by then. On 9 April 1813 Eleanor Wilhelmina arrived at Yarmouth, Anacreon having detained her as she was sailing from North Bergen.^[2] Davies then sailed Anacreon for Lisbon on 3 August.

On 1 February 1814 she recaptured the Spanish ship Nostra Senora del Carmen la Sirena. Late in January the French privateer Lion had captured three ships in all and plundered two, which she had permitted to go on to Lisbon. Anacreon had recaptured the third, Nostra Senora..., and then had set off in pursuit of the privateer.^[3][a]

Loss

Anacreon was last sighted on 28 February 1814 in the English Channel as she was returning from Lisbon. Soon thereafter, she disappeared without trace in a storm. All aboard were lost.^[5][6]

See also

• List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea

Notes

1. A first-class share of the salvage money for Nostra Senora... was worth £91 10s 4d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth £1 19s 6d.^[4]