HMS Hesper was a British Royal Navy 18-gun ship-sloop of the Cormorant class, launched in 1809 at Dartmouth. Her original builder, Benjamin Tanner, became...

have borne the name HMS Hesper: HMS Hesper (1809) was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop launched in 1809 and sold in 1817. HMS Hesper (1855) was an iron...

Bayonne in November 1809. Hesper captured her as she was carrying dispatches to the Île de France. A boarding party in Hesper's cutter suffered three...

be in Cirebon, a force was landed there from HMS Lion, HMS Nisus, HMS President, HMS Phoebe and HMS Hesper on 4 September, causing the defenders to promptly...

captured Java. On 31 August the frigates Nisus, President, Phoebe, and Hesper were detached to take the seaport of Cheribon. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized...

in the proceeds. She was launched at Bayonne in November 1809. On 15 November 1810 HMS Hesper captured Mouche No. 28 near Île Bonaparte (Réunion) as she...

with 1000 dollars. The next day Ringdove captured the brig Hesper, of 264 tons (bm). Hesper was sailing in ballast from Liverpool to Norfolk. The run of...

HMS Phoebe was a 36-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She had a career of almost twenty years and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic...

(980 by 660 ft). These wrecks include: HMS Primrose, an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, sank on 22 January 1809, with only one of the 126 on board surviving...

partnership led by Assheton Smith was formed on the expiry of the lease in 1809 and the business boomed after the construction of a horse-drawn tramway to...