HMS Hearty

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Hearty, 1824
Type: Packet ; Armament 10
Launched : 1824 ; Disposal date or year : Nov 1827
Disposal Details : Supposed burnt at sea with the West Indies mail and 7 passengers : all lost.
Complement when lost : 28 ;
Tonnage BM : 228 ;
Notes:

In the Navy List for Dec 1827 she is still shown as a packet based on the Falmouth station : Commanding officer: Lt. Henry Jewry.

The following brief report appeared in the Nautical Magazine for Oct 1834 : HEARTY, packet brig, thirty-five persons on board, left Falmouth on the 12th of September, 1827, for Jamaica. Was heard of in the N. E. Trades, within a few days' sail of Barbadoes, but did not reach that island. Supposed to have been accidentally burned, the master being in the habit of reading in his bed.