Brazen, 1799
Type: Ship-sloop ; Armament 18
Completed : Taken 1799 ; Disposal date or year : 26 Jan 1800
Disposal Details : Wrecked near Brighton: crew, except one man, perished. Captain James Hanson (Vol iii, Appendix No 9)
Notes:

Circa Jan 1800 Captain T. Hanson, appointed to the Brazen sloop.

Brazen 26 Jan 1800 Wreck Of The Brazen Sloop.
On the 25th of January, between three and four o'clock in the morning, the Brazen, commanded by Captain Hanson, was in a gale of wind driven on the Ave Rocks, near Newhaven, and soon afterwards dashed to pieces, by the violence of the waves. The wreck, when it was discovered about seven in the morning, exhibited a most melancholy and distressing scene. Many of the crew who had got on rafts, and on different parts of the ship, were seen struggling with the contending billows, but in vain, as it was at the time of high water, and when no assistance could be given them from the shore. The Lieutenant and Purser, who were excellent swimmers, stripped, and attempted to save themselves by that means ; but having swam till they were exhausted, they sunk, and were ween no more : and it is painful to relate, that the whole of the crew, consisting of 120 persons, one only excepted, perished. At the ebbing of the tide the shore was covered with dead bodies, which were picked up and put into wagons sent from Newhaven for that purpose. The man who was saved preserved himself by the help of a trough, or skid, used for launching a boat from a ship, and was drawn up the Cliff by a machine constructed for that humane purpose. He was so much exhausted, that it was a considerable time before he recovered sufficiently to speak to be understood. The Brazen had the day before taken a prize off the Isle of Wight, and sent her to Portsmouth, under care of seven of the crew, who thereby fortunately escaped the dreadful and fatal disaster.