HMS Hound (1796)

HMS Hound was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She had a short history. After her launch in 1796 she captured two privateers and destroyed a third before she was lost in 1800.

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

Plan of Hound
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Hound
Ordered4 & 18 March 1795
BuilderThomas Hills, Sandwich
Laid downMay 1795
Launched24 May 1796
Commissioned16 May - 19 July 1796
FateLost 26 September 1800
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeDiligence-class 18-gun brig-sloop
Tons burthen31534⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 95 ft 0 in (29.0 m) (gundeck)
  • 75 ft 2 in (22.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam28 ft 1 in (8.6 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 0 in (3.7 m)
Sail planbrig
Complement121
Armament

Career

The brig-sloop was commissioned in April 1796 under Commander John Wood for the North Sea.[1]

In 1797 Hound was at Spithead and was caught up in the Spithead and Nore mutinies. A former member of her crew, Richard Parker, was the "President of the Delegates of the Fleet", i.e., the leaders of the mutiny, and Wood testified at Parker's trial.[2]

On 26 March 1798, Hound detained the Danish brig Charlotte Juliana.[3]

Hound and the hired armed cutter Black Joke captured Minerva on 16 May.[4]

On 14 June 1798 Hound encountered and captured the Dutch privateer lugger Seahound (or Zeehound) some 10 leagues (48 km) off the Skaw. Seahound was pierced for 14 guns but only had five mounted. She also had four swivel guns and a crew of 30 men. She was six weeks out of Holland.[5]

On 23 June 1799 Hound encountered and captured the French privateer lugger Hirondelle, off the Skaw. Hirondelle was armed with five guns and two swivel guns, and had a crew of 26 men. She was three weeks from Dunkirk but had captured nothing.[6]

Two days later, acting on information he had received of a large privateer cruising in the Bite or off the Skaw, Wood fell in with a large lugger that mounted 16 guns. After a chase of 14 hours, Hound succeeded in shooting away the lugger's main mast and driving her ashore between Robsnout and Hartshall. The wind was driving a heavy sea on the beach with the result that it soon dashed the lugger to pieces, and probably cost many of the lugger's crew their lives. Wood was pleased to have destroyed his quarry however, as she was one of the largest and fastest vessels on the coast and when he encountered her was trailing a British convoy from the Baltic.[7]

In the late summer-early autumn, Hound took part in the Helder expedition, a joint Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland under the command of Vice-Admiral Andrew Mitchell. At the Neiuw Diep the British captured seven warships and 13 Indiamen and transports.[lower-alpha 1] Mitchell then obtained the surrender of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic in the Vlieter Incident.[9] The Dutch surrendered twelve vessels ranging in size from the 74-gun Washington down to the 16-gun brig Galathea.[10]

Commander William Turquand replaced Wood in April 1800.[1]

Hound and Jaloue captured the cutter Rover on 10 May. That month Hound also captured the dogger Zeelust.[4]

Loss

Hound disappeared during a storm in the Shetland Islands on 26 September 1800, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.[1] Wreckage identified as coming from Hound drifted ashore on the islands of Unst and Balta.[11]

Notes
  1. Prize money to a seaman for these vessels amounted to 6s and 8d.[8]

Citations
  1. Winfield (2008), p. 281.
  2. Neale (1842), pp. 272–75.
  3. "No. 15281". The London Gazette. 2 August 1800. p. 891.
  4. "No. 15460". The London Gazette. 9 March 1802. pp. 260–261.
  5. "No. 15037". The London Gazette. 30 June 1796. p. 604.
  6. "No. 15160". The London Gazette. 16 July 1799. p. 718.
  7. "No. 15162". The London Gazette. 23 July 1799. p. 742.
  8. "No. 15453". The London Gazette. 13 February 1802. p. 158.
  9. "No. 15174". The London Gazette. 3 September 1799. pp. 871–872.
  10. "No. 1516". The London Gazette. 3 September 1799. pp. 885–887.
  11. Hepper (1994), p. 95.

References
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Neale, William Johnson (1842). History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore: With an Enquiry Into Its Origin and Treatment, and Suggestions for the Prevention of Future Discontent in the Royal Navy. p. T. Tegg.
  • 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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