Hazard, 1794
Type: Sloop ; Armament 18 (eighteen 6-pounders and six 12 or 18 pounder carronades)
Launched : 1794 ; Disposal date or year : 1817
Complement : 121
Notes:

16 Jul 1796 captured the French privateer Terrible.

2 Dec 1796 captured the 22-gun privateer Musette.

1 Jan 1797 captured the French privateer Musette on the Irish station.

1 Apr 1797 captured the 18-gun privateer Hardi near the Skelligs, Ireland.

12 Aug 1798 captured the French armed ship Neptune.

19 Mar 1799 arrived Spithead from Ireland.

26 Mar 1800 arrived Spithead the Hazard, Captain Butterfield, with a convoy from Ireland, which departed the next morning with them for the Downs.

4 Aug 1800 captured the French privateer Ajax.

20 Oct 1800 departed Spithead with a convoy for Newfoundland.

5 Dec 1800 arrived Spithead from the Downs.

17 Jan 1801 departed Spithead for Ireland, with Captain Baker, as passenger, to join the Phoebe, at Cork.

24 Jan 1801 arrived Plymouth from the Eastward and departed again this morning to the Westward.

23 Feb 1801 sent in two Danish vessels that she had detained.

24 Feb 1801 arrived Spithead from a cruise, with the Triton, homeward-bound East Indiaman, under convoy, which she fell in with on the 7th instant, off Cape Clear, in lat. 51. 47. long. 13. W., when in some distress, having been four months on her passage from Madras.

4 Mar 1801 appointed at Spithead to take a convoy to Cork.

6 Mar 1801 departed Spithead the Hazard, Capt Butterfield, for Cork with a convoy.

13 May 1801 arrived Spithead with a convoy from Belfast, which she escorted safe to the Downs. It was reported that on her return to Spithead she beat over the Puller Bank, near the Owers.

30 May 1801 departed Spithead for Cork.

19 Jun 1801 arrived Spithead from a cruise.

20 Jun 1801 departed Spithead for Cork, with a convoy, and passed by Plymouth on the 22nd.

7 Jul 1801 arrived Spithead, the Hazard, Capt Butterfield, from the Downs.

18 Jul 1801 a Court Martial was held on board the Gladiator, in Portsmouth on harbour on Lieutenant John Alexander Douglass, of his Majesty's sloop Hazard, for absenting himself from the said ship without leave. The charge being proved, he was sentenced to be dismissed his Majesty's Service.

19 Jul 1801 arrived at Torbay last night after post, HM ship Hazard, with the wind about WNW, but this morning it had shifted round to ESE, and sailed.

2 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead with a convoy from Cork.

4 Sep 1801 came into Portsmouth harbour the Hazard, Capt Butterfield.

11 Sep 1801 has gone out to Spithead, having completed her refit.

11 Sep 1801 departed Spithead the Hazard, for Cork.

27 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead from Cork, with a convoy of vessels from the fragmented West Indies convoy.

4 Jan 1802 arrived Greenock some days previously to receive State Prisoners at Fort St. George, perhaps for Dublin ?

21 May 1802 arrived Plymouth Sound the Hazard, 18, Captain Butterfield, from Cork.

23 May 1802 departed Plymouth Sound for Cork.

Circa 25 May 1802 Captain Neave apptd to the Hazard.

4 Jun 1802 arrived Spithead, from Cork.

25 Aug 1802 the Constance, Captain Mudge, with the Hazard sloop, are ordered to take Dutch troops from Lymington to the Elbe.

25 Aug 1802 went out of Portsmouth harbour, the Hazard sloop of war, Captain Neve.

27 Aug 1802 departed Spithead for Lymington, to take Dutch troops from thence to the Elbe.

29 Aug 1802 departed Lymington, the frigate Confiance, with the sloop Hazard, with the remainder of the Dutch troops.

31 Aug 1802 passed through Spithead with the Constance, and the remainder of the Dutch troops from Lymington for Cuxhaven.

3 Sep 1802 passed through the Downs this morning, from the Westward, to Helvoetsluys, with Dutch troops.

16 Oct 1802 arrived at Spithead, from the Texel.

19 Oct 1802 to prepare for sea.

20 Nov 1802 arrived Thursday at Torbay, and after taking in some supplies, sailed again yesterday on a cruise against the smugglers, with the wind about ENE.

7 Jan 1803 arrived Falmouth from a cruise.

20 Jan 1803 arrived Plymouth Sound from Torbay, having in the late gales parted 2 anchors and cables an end, but fortunately she had got her foresail up, and got under way. Mr Rowe, a King's pilot, got on board with difficulty, but Mr Chappell, also a King's pilot, when endeavouring to catch hold of a rope, over-reached himself, and the Hazard going fast through the water, he fell overboard, but fortunately swam well, and kept himself afloat until a seaman could throw him a rope, which he caught hold of and got on board.

24 Mar 1803 has been at Torbay (Brixham Quay), on impress service, and departed this morning with pressed men.

30 Mar 1803 arrived Plymouth Sound from Torbay, the Hazard, with seamen and landsmen for the ships fitting out here.

6 May 1803 arrived Torbay with a large number of imprest men for the Fleet.

29 May 1803 arrived Plymouth from the Channel Fleet with dispatches.

1 Jun 1803 departed Plymouth for the Channel.

6 Jun 1803 reports are received at Portsmouth that that the Hazard, operating in the Channel, has sent into Plymouth the French brig Les Trois Consuls, laden with cotton, coffee &c., from Port-au-Prince, prize to the Hazard.

7 Jul 1803 arrived Plymouth from the Channel Fleet with dispatches.

31 Jul 1803 was reportedly taken by the French a few days since off the Ferrol, when in the grey of the early morning she found herself surrounded by 4 frigates and a corvette, and surrendered. Would appear to be fake news ;-) I guess all one can say is that it was ever thus ?

1 Aug 1804 arrived Plymouth the Danish brig Hercules, from Cette, to Hamburgh, laden with brandy and wine, detained by the Hazard.

Circa 9 Apr 1804 the Nereide is ordered to be commissioned for service along the coast, in the region of Mount's Bay, where French privateers have been taking English ships, and the Plover off Land's End, where the French privateer Hirondelle has been taking English merchant coastal shipping without any opposition. Similarly, the 18 gun vessels Nimrod, Hazard, Seagull, and cutter Viper, 12, are to cruise from Land's End to Mount's Bay.

Circa 19 May 1804 Capt Neve of the Hazard, promoted to Post Captain.

Circa 11 Aug 1804 the boats, under the command of Lieut Walker, off L'Orient, are reported to have cut out and detained the French sloop La Columbe, laden with corn from Nantes, despite the best attempts of a Corvette, 24, and 2 brigs, 18, to prevent her becoming a prize to the Hazard.

10 Sep 1803 arrived Plymouth from a cruise.

Circa 29 Sep 1804 the Naiad, Sirius, Aigle, and Diamond, frigates, and Hazard, sloop, are reported at Portsmouth to have departed Plymouth for cruises to the Westward.

May 1805 cruising in the Channel

25 Apr 1806 Pallas detached to reconnoitre the French squadron at anchor in the road of the Isle of Aix, during which there was a brief action with the French 40-gun frigate Minerve and three brig-corvettes, who retired when Iris, Hazard, and a cutter were seen cruising off Chasseron.

22 Jan 1809 Hazard, Cleopatra and Jason, cruising off Gaudeloupe, captured the French 40-gun frigate Topaze, which was added to the British navy by the name of Alcm�ne.

12-17 Apr 1809 a part of a British squadron, off the Saintes, West Indies, which chased a French squadron, and captured the French 74-gun d'Haupoult of 1871 tons, and, under the name of Abercromby, cruised for three or four years in the British service. 1 May 1835 a portion of the prize money resulting from this action due for payment : namely a dividend from the estate of the bankrupt agent Henry Abbott's : no doubt one of the many fraudsters who ripped off matelots in those days : officers and ratings being fair game.

17 Oct 1809 cruising off Pointe-�-Pitre, island of Guadaloupe, with support from the sloops, the ships' boats of the Hazard and Pelorus destroyed a privateer-schooner moored under the battery of Sainte-Marie.

15 Dec 1809 departed from Basse-terre, Guadeloupe, with a small squadron in search of a French sqadron reported to be in the area. In subsequent days was joined by 2 sloops and 2 frigates.

17 Dec 1809 the French ships Loire and Seine were sighted and anchored under a shore battery in a cove at Arise la Basque, where the British squadron was joined by the Sceptre, 74. The French ships were subsequently engaged and destroyed on the 18th.

14 Mar 1811 departed Spithead with a convoy for Newfoundland.

17 Mar 1811 departed Torbay with convoy for Newfoundland.

22 Mar 1811 departed Plymouth Sound with convoy for Newfoundland.

24 Mar 1811 departed Plymouth Sound with the Newfoundland convoy.

20 Aug 1811 passed by Plymouth up the Channel a convoy. Off the Lizard captured a smuggling lugger with spirits and tobacco.

22 Aug 1811 arrived Spithead from Newfoundland.

23 Jan 1812 arrived Spithead with convoy from Newfoundland.

9 Mar 1812 departed Spithead for Newfoundland, with a convoy.

5 Mar 1814 arrived Plymouth Sound.

7 Mar 1814 departed Plymouth Sound with a convoy for Cork.

24 May 1815 departed Plymouth Sound on a cruise.

24 Jun 1815 departed Spithead to Ostend, for sick, wounded and prisoners.

10 May 1816 arrived Halifax, from Newfoundland.

24 May 1816 departed Halifax, for Newfoundland.