HMS Active (1799)

HMS Active (1799)

HMS "Active" was a fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 December 1799 at Chatham Dockyard.

"Active" entered service in 1800, operating in the English Channel as part of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1801 the privateer "Quinola" was captured in the Channel and in 1802 "Active" sailed to Egypt and back with specie. In 1805, "Active" was in the Mediterranean, later sailing to the West Indies and then the the waters off Ireland. In 1807, "Active" returned to the Mediterranean to participate in Thomas Louis's squadron in the Dardanelles Operation. The following year "Active" captured the Italian brig "Friedland" and in 1809 returned to Britain and was paid off.

Recommissioned later in 1809, "Active" sailed for the Adriatic and in 1810 she participated in a raid of Grao near Trieste, seizing a coastal convoy under Captain James Alexander Gordon. In 1811 "active" raided Pescona and Ortona and in later in the year participated in the Battle of Lissa. Later in the year "Active" attacked Ragosniza and in November the ship was engaged at the Action of 29 November 1811 when a French convoy was destroyed. In 1812 "Active" returned to Britain and served briefly in the West Indies in 1815. "Active" remained in service in the Mediterranean and elsewhere until 1824, when she entered reserve in Portsmouth. She was renamed HMS "Argo" on 15 November 1833 and was broken up in October 1860 at Plymouth.

References

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* [http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0029 Ships of the Old Navy]


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