Despatch / Dispatch, 1812
Type: Brig sloop ; 14 guns
Launched : 1812 ; Disposal date or year : 1836
Notes:

25 Feb 1813 arrived Portsmouth from the Downs.

May - Aug 1813 the frigates R�volutionnaire and Pr�sidente, brig sloops Beagle, Despatch, and Challenger ; and schooners Holly and Juniper, and two gun-boats, stationed off the north coast of Spain to assist the patriots.

13 Sep 1813 Came in to Plymouth from St. Sebastian and the coast of Spain.

8 Apr 1814 departed Plymouth with a convoy for Bordeaux and Spain.

16 Aug 1814, arrived Halifax, from New London.

16 Nov 1814, captured the Revenue Cutter Eagle, prize to the Despatch, departed with the Narcissus.

21 Jan 1815, off New London, boarded the Novo Scotian privateer Rover with news of the capture of the USS President by the Endymion, and loss of the Sylph off Long Island.

17 Jul 1815 arrived Portsmouth from a cruise.

5 Sep 1815 has made signal at Spithead for sailing.

9 Sep 1815 departed Plymouth to the eastward.

11 Sep 1815 arrived Portsmouth from Plymouth.

3 Jan 1816 arrived Portsmouth from a cruise.

2 Jan 1816 departed Portsmouth with the Royal Charlotte yacht for London.

23 Oct 1821 reported to be at Zante, with the Seringapatam, Chanticleer, Larne and Redpole, when the Racehorse departed Smyrna for England.

27 Nov 1821 Is in commission and based in the Mediterranean.

5 Nov 1825 departed Falmouth on an experimental cruise with the Harlequin, Pandora, and Victor.

30 Nov 1825 departed Portsmouth for the coast of Africa.

4 Dec 1825 departed Falmouth for Cape Coast.

17 Dec 1826 departed Cork with the Victor and transports with troops for Jamaica.

6 Jan 1827 at Oporto.

8 Mar 1831 arrived Portsmouth, from Cork, Commander Bowyer, in command.

16 Apr 1831 the Ariadne, Dispatch, Nautilus and Savage departed Portsmouth, with sealed orders, which were to be opened off the Lizard.

11 Jan 1832 arrived Spithead from Lisbon, Cdr. Frankland, in command.

14 Jan 1832 departed Spithead, to the eastward, to be paid off.

18 Aug 1832 fitting out at Chatham.

15 Sep 1832 arrived Sheerness from Chatham.

29 Sep 1832 arrived Spithead with the lighter Medway, en route for the West Indies.

15 Oct 1832 departed Spithead for Jamaica with the lighter Medway.

8 Jan 1833 refitting at Barbadoes.

21 Apr 1833 at the Leeward Islands.

8 Jul 1833 arrived Barbadoes from Bermuda.

31 Jul 1833 departed Bermuda for Jamaica

22 Aug 1833 at Jamaica.

17 Sep 1833 departed Port Royal for Barbadoes.

23 Sep 1833 weathered Tortugas, the delay being due to a strong SW to W current between Capes Nicholas Mose and Maize.

24 Sep 1833 at daylight saw the SE point of Great Inagua. Much detail given in the Nautical Magazine for 1835, from p. 769.

25 Sep 1833 at daylight made the coast of Little Caycos.

26 Sep 1833 saw the northern extreme of Caycos and left it astern.

12 Oct 1833 anchored in Carlisle Bay, Barbados.

18 Nov 1833 anchored at 6.45 pm off the SW end of Anguilla.

2 Dec 1833 weighed for Maranham.

6 Dec 1833 in lat. 8� 57' N., long. 55� 39' W.

25 Dec 1833 detained in lat. 3� 49' N., long. 39� 32' W., en route from Ayudah to St. Jago de Cuba, to the windward of the Barbadoes, the Spanish slave schooner Rosa, of 75 tons, Joz� Villadarga, master, with 292 slaves on board, which was sent for adjudication to the British and Spanish Mixed Court at Havana, and on 15 Feb 1834 sentenced to be condemned.

28 Dec 1833 crossed the Equator in long. 39� 33' W.

2 Jan 1834 arrived off Maranham.

4 Jan 1834 arrived Para.

11 Jan 1834 in lat. 1� 31' N., long. 48� 34' W.

16 Jan 1833 anchored Carlisle Bay, Barbados.

28 May 1834 warns of the discovery of a shoal on the south side of the island.

7 May 1835 reported to be with a squadron at Barbadoes.

28 Apr 1835 Racehorse is reported to have departed from Barbadoes to Para to relieve the Despatch

21 Jun 1835 was at Para.

25 Sep 1835 arrived Portsmouth from the Nore on and will be paid off on Monday.