HMS Britomart (1820)

HMS *Britomart* p1
Ship data
flag	United Kingdom
Ship type	Sloop
class	Cherokee- Class; Second Series
Shipyard	Portsmouth Dockyard , Portsmouth
building-costs	7,803 pounds
Order	November 2, 1818
Launch	August 24, 1820
Commissioning	September 5, 1820
Whereabouts	sold on April 13, 1843
Ship dimensions and crew
length	27.43 m ( Lüa )
width	7.46 m
Draft	Max. 3.35 m
displacement	237 tn.l.
crew	55 to 56 men
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	brig
Number of masts	2
Armament
	2 × 9 pounder cannons ; 4 × 6 pounder cannons; 1 × 6 pounder carronade ; 1 × 4 pounder howitzer ;

HMS Britomart was a British 10-gun brig (ten-gun brig or brig sloop ) of the Cherokee class . The ship was used in the fight against the slave trade and as a research ship. It wassoldin Singapore on April 13, 1843and from then on served as a pilgrimage ship to Mecca . A headland near Auckland in New Zealand was named Point Britomart after the ship.

Fight against the Atlantic slave trade

On October 17, 1835, Lieutenant William Henry Quin succeeded in boarding the Spanish schooner Conde de los Andes near Fernando Póo with 282 slaves on board and arresting the captain Bartolomé Pedemonté. A month later he raised the Thereza , which was sailing under the Portuguese flag. Their captain Silveiro Joze Pereira Coutto had taken 214 slaves on board in Lagos . In 1836 the Spanish slave ships Mosca , Dos Hermanos (alias Numero Dos ) and General Mina fell into the hands of the Britomart .

Commanders

Commander Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon Harcourt, June 5, 1824 - May 20, 1825
Captain Augustus James Champion de Crespigny, 1825
Commander Frederick Chamier , August 9, 1826 - autumn 1827
Captain Russell Henry Manners, August 25, 1828 - October 26, 1830
Commander Edward John Johnson, 1829
Commander Lord Edward Russell, November 22, 1830 - January 10, 1831
Lieutenant William Henry Quin, 1834
Lieutenant Commander Owen Stanley, December 21, 1837 - March 26, 1839
Commander Owen Stanley, March 26, 1839 - August 7, 1841
Captain Owen Stanley, August 7, 1841 - April 13, 1843

Prominent crew members

Commander Henry Dundas Trotter , February 20, 1826 - July 22, 1830
Midshipman Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt , early 1832 - June 22, 1832

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Correspondence with the British Commissioners relating to the Slave Trade, 1835, p. 80 ( online )
^ Correspondence with the British Commissioners relating to the Slave Trade, 1835, p. 105 ( online )
^ William Richard O'Byrne: A naval biographical dictionary , London 1849, p. 460 ( online )
^ William Richard O'Byrne: A naval biographical dictionary , London 1849, p. 184 ( online )

[1] Correspondence with the British Commissioners relating to the Slave Trade, 1835, p. 80 ( online )

[2] Correspondence with the British Commissioners relating to the Slave Trade, 1835, p. 105 ( online )

[3] William Richard O'Byrne: A naval biographical dictionary , London 1849, p. 460 ( online )

[4] William Richard O'Byrne: A naval biographical dictionary , London 1849, p. 184 ( online )