Everything about Hms Pickle 1800 totally explained
HMS Pickle was a 10-gun
Bermuda sloop of the
Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named
Sting, one of several vessels seized when the
Dutch island of
Curaçao was surrendered to Captain
William Frederick Watkins of
HMS Néréide in 1800, and was purchased by
Lord Hugh Seymour in January 1801 as an armed
tender and renamed
Pickle in 1802.
Service
In 1803
Pickle was attached to
Admiral William Cornwallis' Inshore Squadron, where she was used to recconoitre enemy harbours during the
blockade of
Brest,
Rochefort, and
Lorient. On
March 25 1804
Pickle went to the assistance of
HMS Magnificent, which had run on to a shoal off Brest, and assisted in the rescue of her crew.
On
October 9 1805, commanded by Lieutenant
John Richards Lapenotiere,
Pickle was sent with
HMS Weazle to assist
Captain Henry Blackwood in watching the coast off
Cádiz, and to provide reconnaissance services for the fleet.
Pickle managed to sail close enough to the coast to provide an exact count of the enemy warships in Cadiz harbour.
Battle of Trafalgar
During the
Battle of Trafalgar,
Pickle and the other small vessels were kept well back from the fighting, since a single
broadside from a
ship of the line would have sunk her instantly.
Pickle herself was stationed to the north-west of the weather line, where
Nelson was leading
HMS Victory into battle. In the later stages of the battle,
Pickle and three other vessels went to the rescue of the crew of the French ship,
Achille, which caught fire and subsequently exploded.
Pickle was the first ship to bring the news of
Nelson's victory to
Great Britain, arriving at
Falmouth on
November 4,
1805, having been chosen to carry the dispatches of
Vice Admiral Collingwood who had assumed command after the death of Nelson. After arriving in Falmouth Lapenotiere took a coach to
London to deliver the dispatches to the Admiralty, receiving a promotion to
Commander for his service.
To this day the Royal Navy's
petty officers have an annual
Pickle Night dinner, as do many private clubs in the
Commonwealth of Nations. The historic and epic 1805 voyage and journey were commemorated in 2005, the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, by the
New Trafalgar Dispatch and the
Trafalgar Way.
Pickle struck a shoal at Cádiz and was lost in 1808.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Hms Pickle 1800'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://hms_pickle__1800.totallyexplained.com">HMS Pickle (1800) Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
