Fury, 1790
Type: Bomb (1798) ; late Sloop ; Armament 12
Launched : 1790 ; Disposal date or year : 1811
Notes:

1798 converted for use as a bomb.

Apr 1797 abortive attack on Porto-Rico.

13 Aug-Oct 1799 employed on expedition to Holland.

20 Nov 1799 Portsmouth, arrived the Fury, from the Downs, one of the ships involved in the operation in Holland, which she departed on the 17th.

28 Dec 1799 Plymouth, departed on a cruise.

1 Jan 1800 Plymouth, departed Fury, 18 guns, Capt. Curry, with a convoy, to the eastward. Later noted as having 16 guns.

2 May 1800 Portsmouth, departed on a cruise.

26 May 1800 Portsmouth, arrived with a convoy from Jersey.

22 Jul 1800 Portsmouth, arrived from Jersey.

5 Aug 1800 Portsmouth, departed as a part of a squadron, commanded by the Dictator, on a secret expedition.

20 Oct 1800 re-captured the brig Padstow, of Padstow.

2 Mar 1801 landing seamen, artillery etc. from the squadron in Aboukir bay, where the French were already in a position. These vessels were anchored in a position where they could support the landings with their guns and mortars.

11 Mar 1801 salvage money resulting from the re-capture of the Brig Padstow now due for payment.

16-19 Apr 1801 involved in the attack, in the Nile, on the castle of Jullien.

29 Jun 1801 cruising off Alexandria, per UK newspapers of this date, reporting news received from off Egypt.

Circa 24 Feb 1802 Captain Curry, of the Fury bomb, who so eminently distinguished himself in the expedition at Egypt, and was the bearer of the official dispatches to Government of the surrender of Grand Cairo, to the rank of a Post Captain, and appointed to Le Tigre, 80, now at Malta, one of the finest ships in the British service, and lately commanded by the gallant Sir Sidney Smith.

2 Apr 1802 has been ordered to be paid off at Portsmouth.

24 Jun 1802 arrived Spithead the Fury Bomb, from the Mediterranean.

26 Jun 1802 departed Spithead the Fury bomb, to the east to be paid off.

29 Jun 1802 arrived Sheerness and then sailed for the Thames to be paid off.

Please note that there were two vessels with the name HMS Fury in existence at the same time, between 1794 and 1802 !! But in the main this vessel was usually noted as being the Fury Bomb, to differentiate her from the Gun vessel with the same name.

17 Nov-30 Dec 1802 prize money resulting from the expedition to Holland due for payment.

30 May 1803 departed Sheerness.

4 Jun 1803 departed the Downs in the evening the Mercury, Fairy, Lark, and Peterell, sloops ; with the bombs Perseus, Fury, and Terror, with a convoy to Spithead.

20 Jun 1803 departed the Downs, the Fury, Capt Laingford, on a cruise.

12 Jul 1803 the Fury, Capt Laingford, arrived at Spithead from the Eastwards with seamen.

13 Jul 1803 departed Spithead for the Eastward.

11 Sep 1803 arrived in the Downs the Fury, and Perseus bombs from a cruise.

12 Sep 1803 arrived Spithead the Fury bomb, with a convoy from the Downs, or from Jersey, depending on your source.

14 Sep 1803 has made a signal at Spithead for a convoy to the Downs.

17 Sep 1803 departed Spithead with a convoy for the Downs, the Fury, Capt Langford.

18 Sep 1803 departed the Downs to join the Squadron off Calais.

21 Sep 1803 arrived in the Downs the Immortalite, Autumn, and Amaranthe ; Fury and Explosion, bombs ; Mariner, Conflict, and Jackall, gun brigs ; and Millbrook schooner, from the French coast.

23 Sep 1803 departed the Downs for the Northward, the Perseus, and Fury, bombs, and the gun brig Mariner.

20 Oct 1803 departed Sheerness for the Downs.

20 Oct 1803 arrived in the Downs from Sheerness.

24 Oct 1803 departed the Downs, the Fury, on a cruise.

30 Oct 1803 departed the Downs on a cruise.

18 Nov 1803 remains in the Downs the Monarch, Utrecht, Raisonable, Magicienne, Squirrel, Amaranthe, Champion, Vulture, Hound, Merlin sloops ; Perseus, and Fury, bombs ; Seaflower, brig ; Starling, gun brig ; Findon, hired sloop, and the transports Plymouth, Supply, and Sussex Oak.

15 Dec 1803 remains in the Downs.

26 Mar 1804 arrived Spithead, having been blown off her cruising station on the French Coast by bad weather.

Circa 9 Apr 1804 the squadron blockading Boulogne has been driven off their station by the current strong westerly gales : the Locust and Fury, bomb, have arrived in the Downs whilst the rest of the squadron has dropped down to Dungeness.

1-3 Oct 1804 fire ships expended and the trial of a new form of fire boat known as a "catamaran," on the French flotillas anchored off Boulogne. The officers in charge of the fire or explosion vessels were as follows : Capts MacLeod, of the Sulphur ; Jackson, of the Autumn ; Edwards of the Fury ; Collard of the Railleur ; and Searle of the Helder defence ship. Lieuts Stewart of the Monarch ; Lowry of the Leopard ; Payne of the Immortalite ; Templer of the Sulphur ; Midshipman Bartholomew of the Inflexible ; Capts Winthrop of the Ardent ; and Owen of the Immortalite, superintended the operations from the Southward ; and Hon Capt Blackwood, of the Euryalus, from the Northward. Keith.

Circa 17 Nov 1804 Capt Lea apptd to the Fury.

23-25 Apl 1805 was a part of a squadron which captured off Boulogne the Dutch Armed Schuyts Nos 43, 44, 45, 48, 52, 54, 57, and 58, and the unarmed Transport No 3 and is entitled to Head-Money being one of the actual Captors.

May 1805 Downs Station

Deal 31 Dec 1806 departed for Ireland and ports en route.

Portsmouth 1 Jan 1807 arrived from the Downs with a large convoy.