History
Great Britain
NameLord Lennox
Acquired1799 as a prize[1]
FateSold 1804
United Kingdom
NameHMS Firebrand
Acquired1804 by purchase
FateSold 1807
United Kingdom
NameLord Lennox
Acquired1807 by purchase
FateLast listed 1815
General characteristics [2]
TypeSchooner[3]
Tons burthen72,[3] or 73,[4] or 90[1] (bm)
Length55 ft 6 in (16.9 m) (overall); 40 ft 6 in (12.3 m) (keel)
Beam18 ft 5 in (5.6 m)
PropulsionSail
Armament1810: 2 × 3-pounder guns

HMS Firebrand was the mercantile schooner Lord Lennox, a French prize taken in 1799 and renamed. In 1803 her master and owner was J.S.Lloyd, and her trade was London—Rouen. She had undergone a good repair in 1799.[3]

The Royal Navy purchased her in 1804 for use as a fire ship but sold her in 1807.[2]

Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Firebrand and several other vessels for sale on 17 March 1807 at Sheerness.[5]

Her purchasers returned her to her prior name. Lord Lennox re-entered Lloyd's Register in 1808 with Whiteside, master, Hedgecock, owner, and trade London–Cadiz.[4] She then traded between London and Lisbon and was last listed in the Register of Shipping in 1815.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1810 A.Grieg Hedgecock London–Lisbon Register of Shipping
1815 A.Grieg Hedgecock London–Lisbon Register of Shipping

Citations

  1. 1 2 Lloyd's Register (1801), sup. Seq.№L62.
  2. 1 2 Winfield (2008), p. 380.
  3. 1 2 3 Lloyd's Register (1804), Seq.№L398.
  4. 1 2 Lloyd's Register (1808), Supple.pages "L" Seq.№104.
  5. ↑ "No. 16035". The London Gazette. 6 June 1807. p. 765.

References

  • 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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