Hussar, 1799
Type: Fifth rate ; Armament 38
Launched : 1799 ; Disposal date or year : Feb 1804
Disposal Details : Wrecked, February, on the Saintes, in the bay of Biscay : crew saved. Captain Philip Wilkinson.
Notes:

1 Jan 1799 building in the King's Dock Yard at Woolwich.

1799 The replacement of long-guns by carronades meant that the Hussar, originally designed as a 38 gun frigate, was to be armed with additional carronades, making a total of 46 guns, thus making a nonsense of the current rating system.

9 Jul 1800 Portsmouth, arrived from Madeira.

14 Jul 1800 Portsmouth, sailed for Ireland

31 Oct 1800 Portsmouth, arrived with a convoy of West India ships from Ireland.

12 Nov 1800 Portsmouth, came into harbour to repair the damage sustained in the gales on Sunday last.

28 Nov 1800 Portsmouth, taken out of dock, having had a thorough repair.

6 Dec 1800 Portsmouth, a Court-Martial was held on board the Gladiator, for the trial of John Haulen, boatswain of the Hussar, for drunkenness and disobedience of orders, at different times. The charges being proved against the prisoner, he was adjudged to be dismissed from the service, and rendered incapable of ever serving as an officer in the Royal Navy again.

8 Jan 1801 departed Spithead with the East Indiamen Carnatic, Nottingham, and Ocean, under convoy.

9 Jan 1801 passed by, off Plymouth Sound, down the Channel, with seven East Indiamen for Calcutta under convoy.

11 Mar 1801 In lat 34� N. long. 25� W. captured the French schooner privateer and letter of marque Le General Bessieres, pierced for 14 guns, but only armed with 4, and 6 swivels, and manned with 24 men ; from Bourdeaux bound to St. Domingo.

29 Apr 1801 arrived Cork the ships Kenyon, Robertson, and James of Liverpool, from Jamaica, taken by the French privateer Braave, and retaken by the Hussar and Galatea.

12 May 1801 arrived Spithead from Cork.

22 May 1801 arrived St Helen's from Yarmouth. In coming in, about eight o'clock in the morning, she got aground on Bembridge Ledge, where she lay until four o'clock in the afternoon, when, with the assistance of the Hussar and Eurydice, she was got off without receiving any material damage.

23 May 1801 departed Portsmouth for Plymouth and is now reported to be fitting for sea in Hamoaze.

Circa 25 May 1802 Captain P. Wilkinson apptd to the Hussar, from the Unicorn.

28 Aug 1802 the two Boards of the Admiralty and Navy visited the Sound and Cawsand Bay and on passing through the Narrows of Devil's Point, and Mount Edgcumbe the Centaur, Courageux, Hussar, Sirius, and Carysfort manned ship and fired a 19 gun salute.

15 Oct 1802 the death warrant signed by his Majesty, came down to Plymouth from London for the execution to-morrow of H. Kennedy, the mutineer of the Albanaise, 18, Captain Newcombe, sentenced to death about a week since ; he is to be executed to-morrow at 10 A.M. on board the Hussar, 36, Capt P. Wilkinson.

16 Oct 1802 this morning at 8 o'clock, the signal of the yellow flag for an execution was made at the fore of the Centaur, 74, Rear Admiral Dacres, it was repeated on board the Hussar, 36, Captain Wilkinson ; a procession of all the boats of the fleet, manned and armed, rowed alongside the Hussar in Hamoaze, after some time spent in prayer with Father Flyn, a Roman Catholic Priest, and having received extreme unction, Henry Kennedy, the prisoner, attended by the Provost Martial with a drawn sword, ascended the gangway, and walked with a firm step to the platform, where acknowledging the justness of the sentence, the fatal bow gun fired, and he was launched into eternity at the larboard fore-yard arm : after hanging one hour, he was lowered into a shell, and conveyed to the Royal Naval Hospital for interment. He was a fine young man of 24 years old, and a native of Ireland, and was at the time of being discovered as a mutineer, confined in Bridewell for a robbery, being sentenced to six months imprisonment ; he has left his prize money, which is considerable, between Mr Ford, Keeper of the Bridewell, and W. Swete, Sheriffs Officer for the County of Devon.

18 Oct 1802 ordered to prepare for sea at Plymouth, but having difficulty recruiting seamen is to depart shortly for the Eastward to recruit men.

10 Nov 1802 300 Marines of the Plymouth Division and officers embarked on board the Hussar, 38, to do the dockyard duty at Chatham.

11 Nov 1802 went into Barnpool, and departs for Chatham the first fair wind, the wind at present blowing from the Eastward.

17 Nov 1802 departed Plymouth with the frigate Revolutionaire with 300+ officers and marines to provide security in the Chatham Dockyard, and being short of seamen is to be manned on her arrival at Chatham with volunteers from Tower Hill.

20 Nov 1802 passed through the Downs to Chatham.

6 Jan 1803 the Hussar, Capt P. Wilkinson, lying at Sheerness.

10 Jan 1803 during the gale of the 10th the Hussar, lying in Blackstakes, caught fire by accident in the Gunner's Storeroom, close to the magazine, as a result of of the explosion of some combustible material, and a number of the ship's company rushed to the quarter deck to a boat hanging in the tackles astern ; but as too many men appear to have got into the boat the davit gave way and dumped the occupants overboard, into the River, resulting in the deaths of 18 people, including a midshipman, 2 master's mates, 14 men, and a woman. However, by the exertions of those remaining on board, under the command of the Captain, the fire was got under control without any damage being caused to the ship.

15 Mar 1803 arrived in the Nore from Sheerness and have been paid advances of two months pay.

31 May 1803 arrived in the Downs from her anchorage in the Gulls.

3 Jun 1803 arrived Spithead from the Downs.

5 Jun 1803 departed Spithead on a cruise.

11 Jul 1803 the prize L'Esparque, sent into Falmouth with a prize crew by the Hussar, departed the following day for Plymouth.

14 Jul 1803 arrived Plymouth the French brig L'Esparque, Capt Jopple.

18 Oct 1803 arrived Plymouth from a long cruise to fit for foreign service.

19 Oct 1803 warped into Barnpool to fit for foreign service.

2 Nov 1803 the Hussar, Capt Wilkinson, remains in Barnpool, Plymouth, preparing for sea.

6 Nov 1803 departed Plymouth Sound this morning to join the squadron off Corunna, victualled and stored for 4 months service.

29 Nov 1803 the crew of the Hussar having now stepped her foremast and bowsprit in the Sound, are now setting up her rigging and will soon be ready for sea.

4 Dec 1803 departed Plymouth to the westward on a cruise.

Circa 25 Feb 1804 accounts have been received in England that the Hussar has recently been lost on the Saints, near the Passage due Raz, on the French Coast ; the crew have been taken out by the French and are prisoners of war, but the Captain and 9 men were picked up in a boat by the Sirius.