TAGUS HMS 1813

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TAGUS HMS 1813

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Built as a 5th Rate frigate by Daniel List at Fishbourne, Isle of Weight for the Royal Navy.
04 May 1812 ordered.
August 1812 keel laid down as SEVERN.
26 January 1813 renamed in TAGUS.
14 July 1813 launched, one of the Scamander class.
Tonnage 930 ton (bm), dim.43.58 x 11.64 x 3.78m., length of keel 36.57m.
Armament: Upper deck 26 x 18pdrs., quarter deck 12 x 32pdr. carronades, forecastle 2 x 9pdrs. and 2 – 32pdr. carronades.
Crew 284.
15 July 1813 till 09 November 1813 fitted out at Portsmouth.
September 1813 commissioned under command of Capt. Philip Pipon.

After completing sailed from Portsmouth for South America.
06 January 1814 together with HMS NIGER she captured the French frigate La CÉRES (44-guns) and 344 men off Cape Verde. The La CÉRES was under command of Baron de Bourgainville, and out one month from Bordeaux of her first voyage.
March 1814 TAGUS was at Valparaiso with PHOEBE and their prize the American frigate ESSEX, at Valparaiso the two ships were joined by the HMS BRITON.
After escorting the PHOEBE with her prize as far as Juan Fernandez, the TAGUS and BRITON headed north to Callao and other ports along the Peruvian coast.
Thereafter she searched for an other American frigate in Paita, the Galapagos and the Marquises Islands, but their search was fruitless, noting was found.
28 August 1814 Capt. Staines took formal possession of NULU-HIVA, one of the Marquise Archipelago, which Capt. Porter of the ESSEX before had claimed for the United States and renamed Madison Island. He was building a fort and a villa there, which was destroyed by the natives after the ESSEX left.

When the two ships returned to Valparaiso they were surprised by the sighting of an island on 17 September 1814 early in the morning in a position of 24 40S and 130 24W, in the charts on board of this area not any island was given.
When daylight came the two ships bore up and ran for the island to find out if it was inhabited. When in a position about three miles from shore, they observed that some canoes came through the heavy surf and came paddling to the two ships.
Two men came on board who spoke good English, and from these two men they heard the history of the island and that one old man on the island John Adams did known more.
The two captains landed and did talk to Adams, but decided not to take him from the island or try him for mutiny.
August 1815 under command of Capt. James Whitley Deans (later Dundas.)
After her time in the Pacific she returned to the United Kingdom for repair and a refit for service in the Mediterranean.
07 December 1815 she sailed for Lisbon with on board as passenger Rear-Admiral Charles Fleming, at Lisbon she picked up a Spanish Lady with several children, the Lady became later Mrs. Fleming.
After leaving Lisbon she was running in a heavy storm which damaged her rigging and she returned to Lisbon for repair.
27 December 1815 she left again Lisbon and four days later she arrived in Gibraltar.
After she left Gibraltar she sailed for Livorno to join the fleet of Lord Exmouth, who was preparing and expedition against the Barbary pirates, but at the end she took not part in the expedition.
Autumn 1818 she sailed from Malta to the U.K.
1820 At Deptford where she was sold for £2.550 to Beetson on 19 April 1822.

Pitcairn Island 1988 15c sg317, scott 300. 1990 $1.30 sg 384, scott 342. 1998 $1,80 sg 532, scott?

Source: http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhill ... p?ref=2176 British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Rif Winfield.. The Pitcairners by Robert Nicolson.
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