HMS America

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America, 1810
Type: 3rd Rate ; Armament 74
Launched : 1810 ; Disposal date or year : 1867
Notes:

Plymouth Apr 23 1811 departed for North America, with timber ships to load timber for the dock-yards.

Deal Jul 6 1811 arrived from Sheerness

Portsmouth Sep 4 1811 departed with a convoy for the Mediterranean.

9-10 May 1812 the ships' boats of the America, Leviathan, Imp�rieuse and Eclair, involved in operations against French convoys in the Languelia and Alassio district.

11 Jun 1812 action, in shore, off the island of Sainte-Marguerite, by the Swallow, with the French brig-corvette Renard and schooner Go�land, when in the company of the America and Cura�oa.

Aug 18 1812 Off Toulon.

Plymouth Sep 21 1814 arrived from Genoa.

21 Oct 1814 Is reported to have departed for Portsmouth, and to have been paid off.

Jul 1830 Plymouth - has been reduced to a 4th rate.

Plymouth 2 Jan 1836 it is rumoured that she is to be prepared for sea service. [Very much a rumour, but I guess it does tell us she is still in ordinary.]

23 Dec 1841 Plymouth, to be fitted with Captain Couch's patent channels.

27 Apr 1842 the officers and men belonging to the Malabar, and now paid off, are said to have been turned over to the America.

15 Jun 1842 was masted at Plymouth and is expected to be commissioned shortly - nothing else by Dec 1842, so presumably sabre rattling or the reporter for the Hampshire Telegraph has a vivid imagination ?

Circa Jun 1845 Reported to be on the California coast.

1846: Pacific and Otaheite Station

Jan 1848 Devonport, in Ordinary

20 Dec 1848 Devonport

1860 Devonport

1864 Target