HMS Devastation (1804)
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HMS Devastation was an 8-gun British Royal Navy bomb vessel launched in 1803 at South Shields as the mercantile Intrepid. The Navy purchased her in 1804. She served in the English Channel, the Baltic, off the coast of Spain, and in the United States during the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812, most notably at the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore in September 1814. The Navy sold her in 1816.
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Devastation | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Intrepid |
Builder | Simon Temple Jnr, South Shields (Temple shipbuilders) |
Launched | 1803 |
Fate | Sold to Royal Navy in 1804 |
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Name | HMS Devastation |
Acquired | By purchase, October 1804 |
Fate | Sold 1816 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Bomb vessel |
Tons burthen | 445,[2] or 44565⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 31 ft 6+1⁄2 in (9.6 m) |
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