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other ships of the same name, see HMS Speedy. Watercolour of a sailing ship seen in starboard bow view, with hills and mountai ns in the background. In the foreground floating on the water are pieces of wrec kage of wood, ropes and sails, with figures clinging to them. HMS Speedy falling in with the wreck of HMS Queen Charlotte, 21 March 1800 Career (Great Britain) Name: HMS Speedy Ordered: 23 March 1781 Builder: Thomas King, Dover, Kent Cost: 4,200.7s.3d Laid down: June 1781 Launched: 29 June 1782 Completed: By 25 October 1782 Captured: By the French on 9 June 1794 Career (France) Name: Speedy Acquired: 9 June 1794 Captured: 25 March 1795, by the Royal Navy Career (UK) Name: HMS Speedy Acquired: Retaken on 25 March 1795 Captured: By the French on 3 July 1801 Career (France) Name: Saint Pierre Acquired: 3 July 1801 Out of service: Donated to the Papal Navy in December 1802 Career (Papal States) Name: San Pietro Acquired: December 1802 Fate: Broken up in 1807 General characteristics Class & type: 14-gun Speedy-class brig Tons burthen: 207 21?94 tons bm Length: 78 ft 3 in (23.85 m) (overall) 59 ft ? in (18.00 m) (keel) Beam: 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m) Depth of hold: 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) Propulsion: Sails Sail plan: brig Complement: 90 Armament: 14 x 4-pounder guns + 12 x ?-pounder swivel guns HMS Speedy was a 14-gun Speedy-class brig of the British Royal Navy. Built durin g the last years of the American War of Independence, she served with distinctio n during the French Revolutionary Wars. Built at Dover, Kent, Speedy spent most of the interwar years serving off the Br itish coast. Transferred to the Mediterranean after the outbreak of the French R evolutionary Wars, she spent the rest of her career there under a number of nota ble commanders, winning fame for herself in various engagements and often agains t heavy odds. Her first commander in the Mediterranean, Charles Cunningham, serv ed with distinction with several squadrons, assisting in the capture of several war prizes, such as the French frigates Modeste and Imprieuse. His successor, Geor ge Cockburn, impressed his superiors with his dogged devotion to duty. Speedy's next commander, George Eyre, had the misfortune to lose her to a superior French

force on 9 June 1794. She was soon retaken, and re-entered service under Hugh Downman, who captured a number of privateers between 1795 and 1799 and fought off an attack by the large French privateer Papillon on 3 February 1798. His successor, Jahleel Brenton, f ought a number of actions against Spanish forces off Gibraltar. Her last captain , Lord Cochrane, forced the surrender of a much larger Spanish warship, the Gamo . Speedy was finally captured by a powerful French squadron in 1801 and donated to the Papal Navy by Napoleon the following year. She spent five years with them under the name San Pietro, and was broken up in 1807. Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Design and construction Early career French Revolutionary Wars Recapture Downman and Brenton Cochrane 6.1 Speedy and Gamo 6.2 Later actions and capture 7 French and Papal career 8 HMS Sophie 9 Notes 10 Citations 11 References Design and construction Speedy was one of two brig-sloops built to the same design by Thomas King of Dov er, Kent. She and her sister ship HMS Flirt were constructed to provide a small, fast escort vessel with a hull shaped like a cutter, rather than the more seawo rthy but slower ship-sloop.[1] King had for some time specialised in these types of vessels and the design capitalised on that experience. Speedy was so named t o symbolise this new approach, and measured 207 21?94 tons bm with a total lengt h of 78 feet 3 inches (23.85 m).[1] She was armed with fourteen 4-pounders and t welve half-pounder swivel guns, and carried a complement of 90 men. Ordered on 2 3 March 1781, she was laid down at King's yard in June that year and launched on 29 June 1782.[1][2] She moved to Deptford, Kent, to be fitted-out and have her hull covered with copper plates between 16 July and 25 October 1782; at her comp letion she had cost 4,200 7s 3d to build.[1] Early career Speedy was commissioned under Commander[a] Josias Rogers in May 1783 and was ass igned to serve in the North Sea, operating out of the Humber estuary.[3] After f our years on this station she was paid off (placed in reserve) in January 1787 a nd began a refit at Woolwich in April that year. This work was completed by July at a cost of 1,801, and she was recommissioned in May that year under Commander J ohn Maude, still on the Humber station.[3] From November 1790 she was under Comm ander Richard Lane, who was her captain until she was paid off in October 1791. Speedy then underwent another refit, this time at Deptford between June and Dece mber 1792, at a cost of 3,000, and was recommissioned in November 1792 under Comma nder Charles Cunningham.[3] French Revolutionary Wars Cunningham had previously been serving in the East Indies in command of the 16-g un sloop HMS Ariel.[4] By the time he returned to take up his new command the Fr ench Revolutionary Wars had broken out and he was sent to join Lord Hood's fleet in the Mediterranean, arriving there in April 1793.[4] He was largely employed in carrying despatches and maintaining communications with other ships scattered throughout the Mediterranean ports. On 5 October 1793 Speedy accompanied HMS Be

dford and HMS Captain into Genoa, where they captured a French frigate, Modeste, and two armed tartanes.[5] In this action, Speedy sent two boats to board the t artanes while Bedford bombarded Modeste. The French crews of the tartanes attemp ted to resist and two of their crewmembers were wounded, but the British did not suffer any casualties.[6] Captain and Speedy then sailed to the Gulf of Spezia where they caught another French frigate, Imperieuse, at anchor. Imperieuse was scuttled by her crew, but was subsequently salvaged and recommissioned as HMS Im perieuse.[5] Cunningham was promoted to captain and given command of the prize, with his commission backdated to the day of the capture, 12 October 1793.[5] Half-length portrait of a man looking over his shoulder. His hair is sparse and balding, and he wears a dark blue jacket with epaulettes and gold buttons, with a blue sash collar around his neck, suspended from which is a medal. Charles Cunningham, Speedy's commander at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars Three quarter-length portrait of a man, wearing a dark blue jacket with epaulett es and gold buttons, and white trousers. His left hand rests on a cannon, while he holds a telescope in his right George Cockburn, Speedy's fifth commander who rose to the rank of admiral of the fleet Cunningham was replaced by Commander George Cockburn in the command of Speedy, w hich remained in the Mediterranean.[3] His first duties were limited to carrying despatches and passengers between Toulon and Genoa, after which he was ordered to join Captain Sutherland of HMS Diadem, who was commanding a squadron blockadi ng Genoa.[7] The small fleet was caught in winter storms and several ships were badly damaged, forcing Sutherland and his squadron to seek shelter in nearby por ts and to make repairs, with the exception of Speedy, which remained on station. [7] Sutherland put into Hyres Bay and reported the dispersal of his squadron to Lo rd Hood, also noting that nothing had been heard of Speedy since the gales. Once Diadem had been repaired Sutherland returned to Genoa, and was surprised to dis cover Speedy still there patrolling the port, not once having left her task. Whi le single-handedly maintaining the blockade, she had managed to capture several vessels.[8] Sutherland ordered Speedy, which was by now running desperately shor t of water, to Hyres to refit. At the same time, Sutherland sent a complimentary r eport of Cockburn to Lord Hood.[8] On 20 January 1794, Cockburn was rewarded wit h an acting commission as post-captain of the frigate HMS Inconstant, followed a month later by a permanent command of the frigate HMS Meleager.[8] Commander George Eyre took over command of Speedy in February 1794.[3] Speedy su pported the siege and capture of Bastia, after which Eyre was ordered to join Di adem off Nice. While making his way there on 9 June, he ran into a French fleet under Rear-Admiral Pierre Martin, which had sailed from Toulon several days earl ier.[9] Eyre attempted to escape, but the wind and sea favoured the larger vesse ls, and Speedy was chased down and captured. Eyre was brought aboard Admiral Mar tin's flagship and was told that the National Convention had recently ordered th at no quarter should be given to the English or Hanoverians, and that had Martin 's ship been first alongside, he would have sunk Speedy.[10] The sudden appearan ce of a British fleet curtailed the interview, and the French hurried back to Go urjean roadstead outside Toulon, taking Speedy and the captured British crew wit h them.[10][b] Recapture Speedy spent only a brief time sailing under the French flag. On 25 March 1795 h er captain mistook Captain Thomas Fremantle's Inconstant for a French ship and s he was recaptured.[3] Taken back into British service, she was under the command of Thomas Elphinstone from October 1796.[3] In early March the following year, Speedy joined a squadron cruising off Oneglia, Italy, under Commodore Horatio Ne lson, consisting of the 64-gun ships HMS Agamemnon and HMS Diadem, the 32-gun fr igates HMS Meleager and HMS Blanche and the ship-sloop HMS Peterel.[11] On 31 Ma rch the French ketch Genie, a gunboat and four merchant ships were chased by the

squadron and took refuge near the guns of a shore battery. At 3 p.m. Agamemnon, Blanche, Peterel and Speedy approached them and anchored in 4 fathoms (7.3 m) o f water.[11] The four British ships fired their cannons and disabled the shore battery, then sent in several boats under heavy fire from the guns of Genie and the gunboat, a nd successfully boarded and captured both ships.[11] In the meantime, the mercha nt ships had beached themselves to avoid capture. Under heavy musket fire from t he beach, the British captured and re-floated the four merchant vessels.[11] Amo ng the British, one man was killed and three were wounded in the operation.[11] Downman and Brenton Engraving of a half length portrait in an oval of a man, facing right and lookin g towards the viewer. He wears a jacket and epaulettes, and the picture is inscr ibed 'Captain Hugh Downman' Hugh Downman, Speedy's commander between 1797 and 1799 Elphinstone was succeeded in August 1797 by Commander Hugh Downman,[3] who made several cruises with Speedy. On 3 February 1798 she encountered the large privat eer Papillon, mounting 18 guns and carrying 160 men, while sailing off Vigo. The Papillon attacked Speedy, which had a reduced crew; her master Mr Marshall and 12 men were aboard a Spanish prize Speedy had taken earlier.[12] The two ships f ought each other for two days; by the second day Downman had exhausted his suppl y of shot, and resorted to firing nails and pieces of iron hoop at his opponent. [12] Having observed his captain's predicament, Marshall secured the Spanish cre w below deck and took the prize crew off in a small boat to go to Downman's assi stance.[12] After a fierce fight the Papillon was driven off; Speedy suffered lo sses of five killed and four wounded.[12] Downman then recaptured his prize and returned to Lisbon to carry out repairs.[12][13] During his time in command of S peedy, Downman captured five privateers, altogether mounting 17 guns and 28 swiv els, and carrying 162 men.[12] For his efforts in protecting British trade out o f Oporto, the merchants presented him with a letter of thanks, and a piece of pl ate valued at 50.[12] As a reward for his good service, Downman was advanced to po st-captain on 26 December 1798 and appointed commander of the 32-gun HMS Santa D orothea, a frigate that had recently been captured from the Spanish in the Actio n of 15 July 1798.[13] Downman was succeeded in January of the following year by Commander Jahleel Bren ton, who was based at Gibraltar.[14] While sailing off Gibraltar in company with the British privateer Defender on 9 August 1799, Brenton came across three smal l Spanish warships, mounting twenty 6-pounders in total. The Spanish ran into a small sandy bay and anchored in a line so as to bring their guns to bear simulta neously on the British ships. Speedy and Defender sailed up and down for two hou rs firing broadsides, but without much effect.[14] Defender only had 22 men on b oard and decided to sail further out to sea to meet one of her boats. Brenton th ought the effort of keeping under sail was aiding the enemy, and anchored Speedy within 30 yards (27 m) of the middle ship.[15] The two exchanged a fierce canno nade for three quarters of an hour, after which the Spanish abandoned their ship s and made for the shore.[14] Two of the ships ran ashore and the third was imme diately captured.[16] Speedy launched her boats to recover the other two, coming under musket fire from the Spanish on the hillside as they did so. The British got both vessels off and took them into Gibraltar, along with two men wounded du ring the operation.[16] Watercolour print of a naval battle, three small warships with sails and oars in the foreground, with the bow of a sailing warship emerging between them through the smoke which covers the scene. Above the smoke in the background emerge the topmasts of a number of other vessels. HMS Speedy fighting Spanish gunboats off Gibraltar, in an 1801 print On 3 October Speedy, while sailing once again off Gibraltar, spotted ten small s hips coming out of Algeciras, gunboats apparently attempting to attack a British

convoy that was then passing.[16] Brenton identified the ships as merchantmen, attempting to evade the British at Gibraltar in the bad weather. On Speedy's app roach, they scattered, four sheltering under a fort. Speedy approached and fired on them, causing their crews to abandon their ships.[17] They were driven ashor e by the wind, and despite sending boats out, it was impossible to get them off, so they were left to be reduced to wrecks.[17] Three days later, Speedy was sta nding off Europa Point when twelve gunboats were sighted coming out of Algeciras to attack two merchant ships making their way past Gibraltar. One, the Unity, w as carrying wine and spirits for the fleet.[17] Their combined firepower far out weighed that of Speedy, but Brenton turned his ship towards them, covering the e scape of one of the merchantmen with his fire.[17] The gunboats were attempting to catch the Unity when Brenton took his ship through the flotilla, close enough to break many of their oars, maintaining a constant fire from his guns and with every spare member of the crew firing muskets.[17] The Spanish flotilla broke a nd fled. Speedy suffered two men killed and one wounded, and sustained considera ble damage to her rigging and below her waterline.[17] She was unable to return to Gibraltar in the rising wind, and was forced to run along the coast to Ttouan B ay, where her shot-holes were plugged to allow her to make her way back.[18] Dur ing the engagement with the gunboats, the guns in the fortress of Gibraltar had not fired in support of Speedy. When Brenton asked why, the Governor of Gibralta r, General Charles O'Hara, replied that he had arranged with the Governor of Alg eciras for the guns never to be fired at the gunboats so as not to annoy the inh abitants of the town.[18] Cochrane Three quarter-length engraving of a man in a dark naval jacket and epaulettes, a nd white trousers. He looks to his right, and in his hands he holds a telescope. Commander Lord Cochrane achieved some of his most notable exploits with Speedy. Brenton was promoted to post-captain, and in March 1800 Commander Lord Cochrane took over.[3] Cochrane was less than impressed with his new command, declaring t hat Speedy was "little more than a burlesque of a vessel of war".[19] His cabin had only 5 feet (1.5 m) of headroom; when Cochrane wished to shave he had to ope n a skylight and set his shaving equipment out on the quarterdeck.[20] On anothe r occasion he walked the quarterdeck with Speedy's entire broadside, seven piece s of four-pounder shot, in his pockets.[20] In an attempt to increase the firepo wer of his new command he asked for and was given two 12-pounder long guns to us e as bow and stern chasers, but the scantlings could not support them and they h ad to be removed.[20] He then requested his 4-pounders be upgraded to 6-pounders , but his gunports were not big enough.[20] He had better luck with his mast, ta king a spar from HMS Genereux that was considered too large for Speedy, but whic h Cochrane felt improved her speed.[20] In early May Cochrane was escorting a convoy from Cagliari to Leghorn. On 11 May a ship which turned out to be the 6-gun privateer Intrpide was spotted capturing one of the merchant ships in the convoy, at which point Cochrane chased the Intrpi de and forced her to surrender.[21] Three days later, as the convoy passed the i sland of Montecristo, five rowing boats emerged from one of the island's coves a nd captured two of the rearmost merchant ships. Cochrane immediately gave chase, and recaptured them early the next morning.[21] He was then given a free hand t o raid enemy shipping in the area, and captured seven or eight vessels that June and July, including the 10-gun privateer Asuncion off Bastia on 25 June and the privateer Constitution off Caprea on 19 July.[3][22] On 22 September he capture d a large Neapolitan vessel and, on bringing her into Port Mahon, discovered tha t the Spanish had taken notice of his depredations and were preparing a frigate to capture Speedy.[22] Cochrane prepared for an encounter with this Spanish vessel by painting Speedy t o resemble a Danish brig then in the Mediterranean, the Clomer. He also appointe d a Dane as quartermaster and found him a Danish naval officer's uniform.[23] Wh ile cruising off Alicante on 21 December, Speedy encountered an enemy frigate, b

ut tricked her into thinking she was a neutral vessel.[24] Cochrane again used t his false flag technique to his advantage; on 22 January he was sailing with a c onvoy of Danish merchantmen under a Danish flag, pretending to escort them. When a 10-gun French ship and 8-gun Spanish brig approached, Cochrane hoisted Britis h colours and attacked, capturing both of them.[25] Speedy and Gamo Main article: Action of 6 May 1801 Oil painting of a naval battle, a small sailing warship in the centre of the pai nting, close to the stern of a larger warship, covered with climbing figures, to the right. Wreckage and a man float in the foreground, with the background of d istant hills and some sailing vessels. The Action and Capture of the Spanish Xebeque Frigate El Gamo, Clarkson Frederic k Stanfield Speedy was cruising off Barcelona at dawn on 6 May 1801 when a large enemy friga te was sighted. The frigate, a xebec-rigged vessel named Gamo, carrying 319 men, was armed with 8- and 12-pounder guns and 24-pounder carronades.[26] This amoun ted to a total broadside of 190 pounds, more than seven times that of Speedy. Fu rthermore, Cochrane had only 54 men on board; the rest were serving as prize cre ws.[27] Instead of evading the frigate, Cochrane closed on her, and at 9:30 a.m. Gamo fired a gun and hoisted Spanish colours. In return Cochrane hoisted Americ an colours.[27] The Spanish hesitated, allowing Cochrane to get closer, hoist Br itish colours, and evade the first broadside. Gamo fired another, which Cochrane again evaded, holding fire until Speedy ran alongside and locked her yards in G amo's rigging.[28] Gamo attempted to fire upon her smaller opponent, but her gun s were mounted too high and could not be depressed sufficiently, causing their s hot to pass through Speedy's sails and rigging. Cochrane then opened fire with h is 4-pounders double- and treble-shotted, their shots passing up through the sid es and decks, killing the Spanish captain and boatswain with the first broadside .[29] Seeing their disadvantage the Spanish second-in-command assembled a boarding par ty, at which Cochrane drew off and pounded their massed ranks with shot and musk et fire before drawing in close again. After having their attempts to board frus trated three times, the Spanish returned to their guns.[29] Cochrane then decide d to board the Gamo, and assembled his entire crew into two parties, leaving onl y the ship's doctor aboard.[30] The British then rushed the Gamo, some boarding from the bow with faces blackened to look like pirates, the rest boarding from t he waist.[29] There was a hard-fought battle between the two crews, until Cochra ne called down to the doctor, at the time the only person on Speedy, ordering hi m to send another 50 men over. At the same time he ordered the Spanish colours t o be torn down.[31] Thinking that their officers had surrendered the ship, the r emaining Spanish seamen stopped fighting. The British had lost three men killed and nine wounded, while the Spanish had lost 14 killed and 41 wounded, a casualt y list exceeding Speedy's entire complement.[32] The British then secured the Sp anish prisoners below deck and made their way back to Port Mahon. Stung that he had been beaten by such an inferior foe, the Spanish second-in-command asked Coc hrane for a certificate assuring him that he had done all he could to defend his ship.[31] Cochrane obliged, with the equivocal wording that he had "conducted h imself like a true Spaniard".[31] Cochrane was amused to learn that this certifi cate had later secured the Spanish officer further advancement.[31] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Speedy 6 May 1801" to all surviving claimants from the action.[33] Later actions and capture Cochrane returned to the coast off Barcelona in June 1801, HMS Kangaroo in attacking a Spanish convoy of 12 merchant sels anchored under the guns of a large tower.[34] After a etween the afternoon of 9 June and the morning of 10 June, drove ashore all of the ships with the exception of three and joined the 16-gun ships and 5 armed ves sharp action fought b the two ships sank or brigs, which they cap

tured.[34] Three weeks later he was cruising off Alicante when he encountered se veral merchant vessels, which ran ashore. Rather than wasting time trying to get them off, he burnt them, but in doing so attracted the attention of a foe vastl y more powerful than the Gamo.[35] A formidable French squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Lon Durand Linois had left Toulon bound for Cadiz to collect reinforcements for N apoleon's army in Egypt.[35][c] On 3 July they sighted and chased Speedy, and Co chrane ordered the guns, boats and provisions thrown overboard to lighten the sh ip.[36] The French caught up nonetheless, and after narrowly avoiding the broads ide of the 74-gun Desaix, Cochrane struck his colours.[2][36] He was taken aboar d the Dessaix, where her captain, Christy-Pallire, recognised Cochrane's accomplis hments by refusing to accept his sword.[36] Cochrane was taken along with the fl eet and watched the Battle of Algeciras Bay from the Dessaix. He and the crew of the Speedy were later exchanged in the aftermath of the battle.[37] On returnin g to Gibraltar he was court-martialled for the loss of his ship, and honourably acquitted.[38][d] French and Papal career Speedy was taken to Toulon with the fleet, where she became a pawn in Napoleon's efforts at diplomacy with Pope Pius VII, whose presence he wanted at his corona tion as emperor. Speedy, by now named Saint Pierre and inscribed with the words "Donn par le premier consul Bonaparte au Pape Pie VII" ("Given by the First Consul Bonaparte to Pope Pius VII") in gilt letters on her poop cabin, sailed with an escort from Toulon on 12 December 1802 bound for Rome as a present to the Pope.[ 39] She was taken into the Papal Navy in 1804 under the name San Pietro, and rem ained there until being broken up in 1807.[3][39] HMS Sophie Some of Speedy's later exploits under Cochrane were used in the plot of the nove l Master and Commander, part of Patrick O'Brian's AubreyCMaturin series, though t he ship described by O'Brian matches only Speedy's spar dimensions and armament, and is named HMS Sophie.[40][41] Cochrane is replaced in the book by the fictio nal Jack Aubrey, who repeats many of Cochrane's real-life exploits including the defence of a convoy and the recapture of one of its merchants from a privateer, and the capture of a large Spanish frigate, based on the Gamo, but renamed Caca fuego for the novel.[42] Notes a. ^ During the period Speedy was commissioned, a sloop was an unrated ship with between 10 and 18 guns commanded by a commissioned sea officer with the rank of master and commander. After 1794 the rank was shorted to commander, which was c onsidered equivalent to a major in the Army.[43] b. ^ The defeat of the French fleets by Lord Howe at the Glorious First of June and the subsequent acquisition of large numbers of French prisoners caused the F rench to abandon the policy of guerre d'mort, lest their own men also be shown n o quarter. Eyre endured a harsh captivity, but was repatriated, continued to ris e through the ranks and died an Admiral and a Knight Commander of the Bath.[10] c. ^ This consisted of the 80-gun ships Formidable and Indomptable, the 74-gun D essaix and the 40-gun Muiron.[35] d. ^ The court-martial was held aboard the 80-gun HMS Pompee on 18 July 1801. Th e President of the Court was Captain Charles Stirling, of the Pompee, with Capta in Richard Goodwin Keats of HMS Superb, Captain Samuel Hood of HMS Venerable, Ca ptain Aiskew Hollis of HMS Thames and Captain Jahleel Brenton, former captain of HMS Speedy, now commanding HMS Caesar.[44] Citations ^ a b c d Winfield. British Warships of the Age of Sail. p. 318. ^ a b Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 328. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Winfield. British Warships of the Age of Sail. p. 31

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