HMS Nightingale (1805)
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| Name: | HMS Nightingale |
| Ordered: | 12 December 1804 |
| Builder: | John King, Dover |
| Laid down: | April 1805 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1805 |
| Fate: | Sold 1815 |
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| Class and type: | 16-gun brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 284 26⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 0 in (3.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Sloop |
| Complement: | 95 |
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HMS Nightingale was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class of the British Royal Navy, launched in July 1805. She served during the Napoleonic Wars, primarily in the North Sea, where she captured a number of merchant vessels. The Navy sold her in 1815.
In August 1805 Commander William Wilkinson commissioned Nightingale for the North Sea.Nightingale was in company with Texel and Lynx on 6 April when Texel captured the Einigheid. That same day the same three British ships, together with the hired armed vessels Norfolk and Chapman, captured the Jonge Ebeling, Freundschaft, and Morgenstern. Six days later Nightingale captured the Prussian ship Frou Gesiner. The capture of the Twee Gebroders followed on 26 April. Then Nightingale captured the Prussian ships Jonge Gerrite, and De Drie Gebroeders on 23 May.
On 24 January 1807, Nightingale arrived at Edinburgh from Tunningen with news of a French defeat north of Warsaw. In the autumn Nightingale was present at the second battle of Copenhagen. On 20 October she received orders to accompany a small squadron that would escort the transport ships back to Yarmouth. She carried Captain the Honourable Charles Paget, of Cambrian. He had taken up Admiral Gambier's offer to let him return to Britain with the duplicate despatches announcing Denmark's capitulation.
On 25 July 1809, Nightingale captured the Danish vessel Emanuel. That same day she captured Cutter No 16. Then on 16 August she captured the Danish vessel Transport No 52. (Childers was in company at the capture of Transport No. 52.) Lastly, on 12 October, she captured the Helena Maria.
April 1810 saw Nightingale capture five vessesl: Martini Jacobi, C. Stysring, master (15 April), Godes Fisne, A. Brede, master (18 April), Amicitia, Paul Paulson, master, (17 April), Magneten, H. Kilrub, master, (21 April), and a sloop, No. 60, name unknown (21 April.Nightingale was also in sight on 17 April when Mercurious captured Carolus, L.J. Kramer, master, and Enighied, N. Frius, master. That same day Nightingale was in company with Tartar when they captured Amicitia, Paul Poulson, master.
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