HMS Assiduous (1823)

History
NameJackal
LaunchedCirca 1820
Captured1823
United Kingdom
NameHMS Assiduous
Acquired1823 by purchase of a prize
FateSold 1825
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen54 (bm)
Sail planSchooner
Complement31
Armament1 × 12-pounder + 1 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Assiduous was the former pirate vessel Jackal, captured in 1823. On 24 June 1824 Assiduous and HMS Lion captured a pirate schooner.[2] Lieutenant Richard Dowse commissioned Assiduous in November 1824. After HMS Lion, a tender to HMS Carnation, captured the slave ship Relampago, Carnation, Union, and Assiduous set out in pursuit of another slaver. They chased her into Cardinas (or Cardanas). There the Spanish authorities refused to permit the British permission to seize her, despite an inspection revealing that she had carried slaves.[3] The vessel was Magico, and Union finally captured her in 1826.[4]

The navy sold Assiduous on 5 May 1825.[1]

Post script

Vice Admiral Lawrence Halsted, Commander-in-Chief, West Indies, ordered HMS Magpie and Monkey built on the lines of Assiduous.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2014), p. 272.
  2. ^ "No. 18593". The London Gazette. 14 July 1829. p. 1319.
  3. ^ Grindal (2016), 9136.
  4. ^ Grindal (2016), 9119–9126.
  5. ^ Grindal (2016), 9170.

References

  • Grindal, Peter (2016). Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade. I.B.Tauris. ASIN B01MYTNUEH.
  • Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.