HMS Netley (1807)

History
France
Name:	Déterminée
Acquired:	1803
Captured:	1807
History
UK
Name:	HMS Netley
Acquired:	1807 by capture
Fate:	Capsized 1808
General characteristics [1]
Type:	Brig
Tonnage:	173  ^6⁄94 (bm)
Length:	82 ft 10 in (25.2 m) (overall) 58 ft 6 in (17.8 m) (keel)
Beam:	23 ft 7 in (7.2 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 4 in (3.5 m)
Complement:	108 (French privateer) 65 (British service)
Armament:	14 guns (French privateer) 14 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder bow guns (British service)

HMS Netley was the French privateer brig Déterminée that the Royal Navy captured in 1807 and took into service. She was lost at sea on the Leeward Islands station in 1808.

Capture

Venus captured Déterminée, of Guadeloupe, on 18 January 1807 one hundred leagues east of Barbados after a chase of 16 hours. Déterminée was pierced for 20 guns but carried 14, and had a crew of 108 men.^[2] The British took her into service as HMS Netley.

Fate

Netley was under the command of Lieutenant Charles Burman when she sank on 10 July 1808 when a squall caused her to capsize off Barbados. Of her crew of about 60 only a midshipman and eight crewmen survived until HMS Julia rescued them.^[3]

Citations and references

Citations

1. Winfield (2008), p. 349.
2. The London Gazette: no. 16014. p. 394. 23 March 1807.
3. Hepper (1994), p. 124.

References

• Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.