Naiad, 1797
Type: 5th rate ; frigate ; Armament 38
Launched at Hill's Yard, Limehouse 27 Feb 1797 ; Disposal date or year : 1866
BM: 1020 tons
Notes:

11 Aug 1798 captured the French privateer Tigre.

22 Aug 1798 Naiad, joined by the Magnanime, chased and captured the French 36-gun frigate, D�cade, which was added to the navy as a 12-pounder, 36-gun frigate.

1 Jan 1799 Capt. W. Pierrepoint. Refitting at Plymouth.

11 Feb 1799 Plymouth, broke from her moorings in the gale and tailed on the West Mud in Hamoaze ; but the tide flowing she got off with little damage.

3 Mar 1799 with the San Fiorenzo, captured the French privateer Heureux Hazard, 16 guns mounted, and 94 men, in the Bay of Biscay, left Nantz only yesterday.

7 Mar 1799 Plymouth, orders came down this day to the Port Admiral Sir R. King, Bart, for all frigates in future to harbour in the Sound instead of Cawsand Bay, which is to be appropriated for ships of the line. This order it is said is in consequence of the Naiad frigate in the late gales of wind driving and running foul of the Mars, 74 guns, in Cawsand Bay.

19 Mar 1799 arrived Plymouth, with the French privateer L'Heureuse Hazard, 18, formerly the Stork of Liverpool, but in turning up Catwater she got embayed near the Leek Beds, and rode very hard for several hours ; but with assistance from the Dock Yard, she was safe in Catwater by about 5 p.m. Has sent into Falmouth a smuggling cutter, laden with tobacco and spirits.

24 Mar 1799 arrived Plymouth, in the Sound from a cruise.

15 Apr 1799 departed Plymouth, with dispatches for Lord Bridport's fleet.

21 Jul 1799 departed Plymouth, the Naiad, and Childers, on a cruise.

7 Aug 1799 arrived Plymouth, from a cruise.

15-17 Oct 1799 the chase of the Spanish frigates Santa-Brigida and Thetis, the latter with �311,690 sterling onboard, and their subsequent capture by the Naiad, Ethalion, Alcm�ne, and Triton.

14 Nov 1799 Plymouth, went up the harbour, to refit.

24 Dec 1799 Plymouth, in dock for repair.

Circa Jan 1800 Captain Murray is appointed to the command of the Naiad frigate, her former officer, Captain Pierrepoint, being compelled to resign through indisposition.

14 Jan 1800 Plymouth, The nett prize money of the dollars taken on board the St. Brigida and Thetis Spanish galleon frigates, captured by the Triton, Alcmene, Naiad, and Ethalion, was paid this day by their respective agents, and is, exclusive of all expences, as follows : Captains �40,730 ; Lieutenants �5,091 ; Warrant officers �2,468 ; Midshipmen and their class �791 ; Able and ordinary seamen and marines �182. There still remains the nett produce of the hulls, stores, masts, rigging, &c. of the 2 frigates to be accounted for.

31 Jan 1800 arrived Plymouth, from a cruise,

29 Mar 1800 arrived Plymouth, from a cruise.

22 Jun 1800 arrived Plymouth, from a cruise.

13 Sep 1800 arrived Plymouth, La Providence French brig, with wine, soap, and brandy for the Brest fleet. She was discovered under the guns of two batteries near Camaret Point, by the Suwarrow, 14, Lt Nicholson who gallantly resolved to cut her out with his boats, which he effected, notwithstanding the heavy fire of the batteries ; the Elephant, 74, and the Naiad, were in sight in the offing, but have relinquished their share of the prize money in testimony of their approbation of their conduct.

17 Dec 1800 departed Plymouth, on a cruise.

5 Feb 1801 arrived Torbay from a cruise.

7 Feb 1801 arrived Spithead on a cruise.

4 Mar 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound the Swedish brig Dolphin, Mascow, master, from Terra Vica, with salt, for Stockholm, detained off Cape Finisterre by the Naiad frigate.

6 Mar 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound the Swedish vessel Anna Sophia Gallios, Schuman, master, of Stockholm, from Barcelona to Hambro' with wine, for Stockholm, detained by the Naiad.

11 May 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound the Phoenix, Captain Thompson, Post office packet, from Falmouth, the 15th ult. for New York, with the mails. She was taken the 21st by a large French privateer, the Pysche, 40 guns, and 280 men, and recaptured by the Naiad. The Phoenix had sunk her mails. Between her capture and recapture, in lat. 40. 50. long. 20., she fell in with, and was boarded by two large French frigates, of 48 guns and full of troops, out of Nantz a few days, and bound for Egypt with stores and ammunition. They are La Cocarde and La Corneille, which have been waiting at Nantz for several months to escape.

16 May 1801 The boats belonging to the Naiad and Phaeton, manned by volunteer officers, seamen, and marines, under the direction of Lieutenant Marshall of the Naiad, highly distinguished themselves on the night of the 16th, by the capture of La Alcudia, and demolition of El Raposo armed Spanish Corunna packets, in the port of Marin, near the town of Pontevedra, under the protection of a five gun battery, 24 pounders, prepared to receive them. La Alcudia, the largest, commanded by Don Jean Antonio Barbate, a very old Lieutenant in his Catholic Majesty's service, was moored stem and stern close to the fort, and her sails were sent on shore the preceding day. This service was undertaken from information that she was a corvette of 22 guns. I am happy to state that 4 men only, belonging to the two ships, were wounded. P.S. I was under the necessity of setting fire to La Alcudia soon after she was towed out by the boats, the wind setting in strong at S. W.

25 May 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound from the coast of Spain.

26 May 1801 in Plymouth Sound.

6 Jun 1801 departed Plymouth Sound for the Channel Fleet, with bullocks and vegetables.

27 Aug 1801 came into Plymouth Sound the Naiad, from a cruise.

29 Aug 1801 departed Plymouth Sound for Sir E Pellew's squadron off Rochefort.

31 Oct 1801 the Courageux and Achille arrived Plymouth from off Rochefort and reported their experiences of the 20 Oct 1801, when Adm Sir E Pellew's squadron was in imminent danger of going on ashore in the tremendous WSW gale that blew up. The Naiad went on the rocks within shot of the French batteries, and were expecting to be fired upon, not being aware of the Peace of Amiens having been signed ; she had been on shore two days when the French Commodore sent off craft, with spare cables and anchors, and politely informed Captain W. of the preliminaries of peace being signed between France and England ; this conduct accounted for the batteries not firing on the Naiad whilst on shore. The ship's company, with help from ashore, eventually got the badly damaged vessel afloat, and she arrived at Plymouth yesterday.

9 Sep 1802 orders came down this day for the Fisgard, 48, Captain Wallis, to be paid off, at Plymouth, and the Naiad, 38, now in ordinary, is to be commissioned in her room. Captain Wallis, and the men already entered on board the Fisgard, are to go on board the Naiad when ready to be commissioned.

6 Nov 1802 has been ordered to go to Bristol to recruit seamen to complete her complement.

12 Nov 1802 went into Plymouth Sound, the Naiad, 32, to wait for orders.

16 Apr 1803 arrived Plymouth, the Naiad, Capt Wallis, with pressed men and volunteers from Bristol for the Fleet.

29-31 May 1803 captured French National Corvette L'Impatient of 20 Guns and the French Merchant Ship La Chasseur.

6 Jun 1803 sent into Plymouth the French ship Le Chasseur, a prize to the Naiad.

6 Jun 1803 reports are received at Portsmouth that that the Naiad, operating in the Channel, has sent into Plymouth La Baline, with timber for the French Navy ; on the same day she cut out a brig in ballast, from a harbour near the Penmarks, along with a chasse marie, which sank, leaving one prize to the Naiad. In addition, she detained the Danish ship Freuin Brigitha, laden with French owned sundries, from Rotterdam.

23 Jun 1803 it has been announced in the Portsmouth section of the Hampshire Telegraph for 20 Jun 1803, that prize money due to the ship's company of the Naiad, for La Cheri, is due to be paid by Navy and Prize Agency, Messrs Mottley and Grout, Portsmouth. Whilst the London Gazette seems to concentrate mainly on the London Agents, and far less often on other agents based in the home ports, I thought the fact that this agent was advertising his wares, including making loans, and also where and when he was paying out prize and salvage monies &c. might be of some interest.

4 Jul 1803, ship's boats capture the French national schooner Providence.

6 Sep 1803 arrived Plymouth with a prize, the French brig, L'Anne Marie from Newfoundland, bound for Havre de Grace with dried fish and oil.

12 Sep 1803 in the Barnpool at Plymouth overhauling her masts yards and rigging.

2 Oct 1803 dropped down from the Barnpool into the Sound.

5 Oct 1803 was paid wages ; and has hoisted the Blue Peter, as she's under sailing orders.

6 Oct 1803 departed the Sound for a cruise.

11 Nov 1803 about a week ago the American Ship Suffolk, 43 days from Norfolk, Virginia, with tobacco, reports that she was boarded by a French privateer, supposed to have been La Bellone, 30, and the following morning was boarded by the Naiad, who reported have chased the Bellone for 196 miles, but was unable to come up with the privateer.

Circa 28 Jan 1804 Capt Pellew apptd to the Naiad, vice Wallis.

Circa 16 Jun 1804 a Court Martial was held at Plymouth on Mr Dean, First Lieut of the Naiad, and Mr Jones, Second Lieut, for disorderly conduct on the quarter deck : both being found guilty Mr Dean was dismissed the Service and Mr Jones was sentenced to death.

Circa 30 Jun 1804 the Hon Lieut Jones, of the Naiad, who was sentenced to death for striking a superior officer, has been pardoned, and restored to his rank. That perhaps puts things into perspective?

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.

Circa 20 Oct 1804 Capt Duncan apptd to the Naiad, vice Wallis, indisposed.

May 1805 On a cruise westward.

13 Aug 1805 Iris fell in with the French fleet off Cape Ortugal, and on the 14th had escaped the chasing ship and joined the Naiad, in sight of which was the Dragon, accompanied by the Phoenix and prize, the late French frigate Didon.

Circa 1 Oct 1805 the arrival of the additional frigates Naiad, Phoebe, Sirius, Juno, and Niger off Cadiz allowed Nelson to detach them to disrupt local shipping supplying provisions for the joint fleet in Cadiz.

10 Oct 1805 off Cadiz - the tactical preparations etc. for the forthcoming battle. 20 Oct combined fleet departed Cadiz, fleet manoeuvres.

21 Oct 1805 England expects�.. &c. signalled, the first shots of the Battle of Trafalgar are fired. Nelson shot. Resum� of what had taken place. Individual ship actions and losses. The post-mortem commences ; Summary of British casualties ; Death of Nelson ;

22-30 Oct 1805 losses amongst the prizes due to bad weather etc: Redoutable, Rayo, Monarca (sank) ; Fougueux, Bucentaure, Indomptable, San-Francisco-de-Asis, Aigle, Berwick (wrecked) ; Alg�siras (taken into Cadiz) ; Santa-Ana, Neptuno (recaptured) ; Santisima-Trinidad (scuttled) ; Achille, Intr�pide, San-Augustin (burnt) ; the washup ; burial of Nelson ;

24 Oct 1805 Belleisle arrived at Gibraltar, under tow by the Naiad.

16 Dec 1808 captured the French privateers Superb and Fanny on the Home station.

23 Feb 1809 Amethyst observes M. Willaumez's French squadron abreast of the Tour de Baleine and signalled Rear-admiral Stopford's squadron, consisting of the C�sar, Defiance, and Donegal, who went in chase of the French, and watched them entering Basque road on the 24th and despatched the frigate Na�ad to inform Lord Gambia.

24 Feb 1809 Na�ad made the signal of three suspicious sail coming down from the northward and signalled Rear-admiral Stopford's squadron accordingly. leaving the Amethyst and Emerald to watch Basque road, the squadron departed in search of the approaching vessels.

13 Jun 1811 passing St. Helen's, with a convoy for the Downs.

4 Jul 1811 arrived Deal from the westward.

24 Jul 1811 departed Deal for off Flushing.

10 Sep 1811 arrived Deal from a cruise off Boulogne.

20 Sep 1811 at anchor off Boulogne road, whilst observing the French emperor honouring the Boulognese, exchanged greetings with a number of French gun vessels sent out to chase her away.

21 Sep 1811 the Naiad, now accompanied by the Rinaldo, Redpole, Castilian and Viper, off Boulogne road, captured the French prame Ville-de-Lyon, flag ship of the squadron, but were unable close the remaining gun vessels due to shaoling water.

29 Sep 1811 departed Deal to cruise off Boulogne.

6 Oct 1811 captured the French privateer Milan in the Channel.

13 Oct 1811 arrived Deal from off the French coast with a privateer, Reinarde, captured off Dieppe.

27 Oct 1811 departed Deal to resume her station off the French coast.

6 Nov 1811 captured the French privateer Requin at sea.

7 Nov 1811 Passing here Dover with a French lugger privateer, just captured, for the Downs.

8 Nov 1811 arrived Deal with the Requin, French privateer, which she captured two days ago off Dieppe.

10 Nov 1811 Sent into Dover the French lugger Requin, taken after a long chase.

11 Nov 1811 departed Deal for off Boulogne.

17 Nov 1811 passed by Dover with a convoy.

2 Dec 1811 arrived Deal, having been driven off her station by stress of weather, sailing later in the day to resume her station, the gale having abated.

9 Feb 1812 departed Deal to resume her station off the French coast.

31 Jan 1823 the Cameleon and Naiad, off Algiers, attacked the Tripoli, an Algerine corvette, and the former boarded her, before being ordered to abandon the vessel.

Jan 1824 With the Camelion, visited Algiers, following a violation of the Bitish consuls offices, in order to demand satisfaction from the Dey.

31 Jan 1824 Since it was apparent that British citizens living in Algiers were no longer thought to be safe, they were taken on board. However, on departing from the harbour the Algerine corvette Tripoli, which had recently committed depredations on Spanish trade, in contravention of the Treaty of 1816, was sighted in the offing and was reduced to a wreck by the Naiad's gunners. She was subsequently boarded and taken by the Camelion, but on the Naiad's orders, abandoned. See p. 235-236 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow.

18 Mar 1824 captured Quattro Fratelli ; account of the proceeds deposited with the High Court of Admiralty on 16 Jun 1831.

Bona 23 May 1824 The ship's boats were used to burn an Algerine brig of war which had sought refuge under the guns of the fortress. See p. 236-7 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow.
Also the London Gazette https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/18054/page/1353

23 Feb 1825 captured the Muni ; account of the proceeds deposited with the High Court of Admiralty on 16 Jun 1831.

25 Oct 1825 Corfu, Lord Cochrane is daily expected here to intercept the Turkish supplies and reinforcements which are daily expected at Tripolitza (sic), and thus save what is left to the righteous cause of the Greeks. Sorry am I to say that Ibrahim Pacha has nearly overrun the Morea, and destroyed the villages and cattle. Missolonghi still holds out nobly, but it is not secure. The Greeks have offered to place themselves under our protection, on the same terms as the Ionian Islands are placed. The Cambrian, Capt Hamilton, has been to Modon, to effect an exchange between the son of the Bey of Maina, who was taken by Ibrahim at Navarin, and the Pacha of Napoli, who was taken by the Greeks. The Sybille, Capt Pechell, is cruising on the coast of Morea after pirates ; the Naiad, Hon Capt Spencer, is in the Archipelago ; the Rose has been employed these 2 months surveying the coast of Morea, principally in the Bay of Kolokythia ; the Medina is off Cerigo, her second master, Mr W Eshelby (of Portsea), is appointed Acting Master of the Rose ; Zebra, at Zante ; Chanticleer on the Ionian Station ; Weazle at Malta.Hampshire Telegraph - Monday 21 November 1825.

27 Sep 1826 arrived at the Motherbank, for quarantine, from the Mediterranean where it was reported she had been for the last 3 years. 29 Sep 1826 released from quarantine, off Ryde, in the Solent, and entered Portsmouth harbour to be paid off.

1830 Portsmouth

7 Apr 1831 prize money due to be paid as a result of the capture of the Quattro Fratelli, on 18 Mar 1824.

7 Jul 1831 prize money due to be paid as a result of the capture of the Muni, on 23 Feb 1825.

21 Jul 1832 the Nelson, along with the Hibernia, Bellerophon, Edinburgh, Benbow, Spartiate, Pembroke, President, Naiad, Amphitrite, and Trincomalee, it is noted, in the Hampshire Telegraph, were brought forward to be commissioned last summer, at considerable expense, and except for the Spartiate, Edinburgh, and President, and are now to be put back into Ordinary, also at some expense.

29 Oct 1846 Portsmouth. Commissioned for service as Store ship at Valparaiso.

1851 transferred to Callao.

1864 Store ship, Callao. Report of VD etc. onboard : number of Cases of Disease and Injury.

1866 sold to P.S.N.Co. for 2,000 dollars. She is reported in the Naval Review to have lasted until 1898.