HMS Martial

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Martial, 1805
Type: Gun Brig ; Armament 12
Launched : 1805 ; Disposal date or year : 1836
Notes:

1805 Building.

Yarmouth 20 Jan 1811 departed for the Nore.

Portsmouth 22 Sep 1811 arrived from a cruise.

Deal 16 Oct 1811 arrived from off Calais, with an account that 14 of the enemy's brigs passed from Calais to Gravelines yesterday evening. Was repeatedly fired upon from the batteries, under which the brigs kept so close that there was no possibility of getting at them.

Plymouth 29 Sep 1812 Has taken and sent in the French chasse maree La Providence, with a cargo of salt, captured on the 20th inst. by the ship's boats, under heavy fire from a shore battery.

Plymouth 17 Mar 1813 Detained and sent in the French chasse maree Union.

21 Apr 1813 present at the destruction of the French privateer Olympe. Head-money and the proceeds of ordnance stores saved therefrom are due to be paid on 9 Apr 1818.

Plymouth 28 Aug 1813 arrived from a cruize.

Plymouth 21 Dec 1813 arrived on Tuesday with a convoy of transports with troops.

Feb 1814 officers and men of the Porcupine, Lyra, Woodlark, and Martial involved in operations off the mouth of and in the river Adour.

Plymouth 12 Sep 1814 arrived from a cruise with two Cawsand smuggling boats with about 200 casks of foreign spirits.

Plymouth 15 Sep 1814 arrived from a cruise.

Plymouth Dock 9 Nov 1814 Appointed convoy to Cork.

Plymouth 31 Jul 1815 arrived from a cruise.

Portsmouth 23 Oct 1815 arrived from Havre.

Deal 14 Nov 1815 arrived from the westward, and has departed for the River to be paid off.

26 Aug 1819 - 16 Nov 1821 proceeds of sales of sundry stores seized, [per London Gazette of 14 Jan 1823].

27 Nov 1821 in commission and based on Leith.

6 Jul 1822 departed the Clyde for a cruise.

13 Nov 1822 respective proportions of the sum reserved to answer disputed claims to share in the Parliamentary grant for services on the North Coast of Spain and, the Coast of France, in 1812, 1813, and 1814, that they will be paid their those years, and interest thereon, being the final payment.

13 Jan 1823, notice given that the account of sales of sundry stores seized between the 26 Aug 1819 and 16 Nov 1821, by HMS Martial, Robert M'Kirdy, Esq. Commander, will, on the 14 Feb. next, be deposited in the High Court of Admiralty, John Chippendale, for the Agent. Per London Gazette.

4 Mar 1823, prize monies due from the previous article due for payment.

11 April 1823 arrived at Plymouth from Leith.

1830 Nore Station.

2 Apr 1831 arrived Plymouth from the Coast of Scotland ; and departed on the 3rd for Sheerness, Lieut M'Kirdy, in command.