HMS Venturer (HMS Theodosia)

From Wikipedia.

In the last post, I mentioned the HMS Nimrod (1799) capturing the French privateer Nouvelle Enterprise in 1807, and it being taken into the British Navy as the HMS Venturer  and later having its name changed to HMS Theodosia.

It was 72 feet long with a 20,5 foot beam.  55 crew members as the French privateer, and one 12-pdr gun and four carronades when captured.

Served in thee Mediterranean until 1814, when she was sold.  Was a merchant ship after that, but no records of her after 1822.

Commissioned in 1809 for service in the Mediterranean.

In early September 1812, she reportedly destroyed a 22-gun privateer.  In 1814, returned to England where crew was paid off.

--Brock-Perry

The Earlier HMS Nimrod (1799)-- Part 2: A Former French Privateer

Even before commissioning as a British ship, the newly captured French ship took several Spanish ships on her way to Plymouth where, between May 21 and August 8, she was refitted and commissioned as the HMS Nimrod.

In November, the Nimrod captured two ships.  In November 1804, the Nimrod sailed for the Leeward Islands and recaptured a brig taken by a French privateer and in January 1805, an American ship, the Ardent which had also been captured by a French privateer.

In 1807, came the capture of a Spanish packet and then the French privateer schooner Nouvelle Enterprise which entered British service as the HMS Venturer.  It was renamed HMS Theodosia in 1808 and then sold in 1814.

Kind of Confusing Whose On Whose Side Back Then.  --Brock-Perry

Well, There Was An Earlier HMS Nimrod (1799), and It Originally Was a French Ship-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

It was originally the 18-gun French corvette Eole of the French Navy that was captured by the HMS Solebay in 1799 and became the HMS Nimrod.  Sold in 1811 and became a whaler.  As a whaler, she did capture several American whalers.

STATS

101 feet long

29 foot beam

Complement:  British 121,  whaler: 36

Armament:  British

Original:

Sixteen 18-pdr. carronades
Two 6-pdr. chaser guns

1804:

Sixteen 24-pdr. carronades
Two 6-pdr. chase guns

As a Whaler

1812

Fourteen 12-pdr. guns

1814

Twelve 12-pdr. guns.

I was unaware that whalers had that type of weaponry.

--Brock-Perry