Name HMS Hobart Tons burthen 340 bm Launched 1794 | Class and type 18-gun sloop Armament 18 guns | |
Acquired Captured on 21 October 1794 Fate Sold on 23 February 1803 | ||
HMS Hobart was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French privateer La Revanche, which Captain Edward Pakenham and Resistance captured in the Sunda Strait, East Indies on 21 October 1794.
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Career
She served on the East Indies Station and on 1 October 1795, under the command of Captain Benjamin William Page. She then carried a detachment of the 52nd Regiment of Foot, commanded by Captain Charles Monson, which took possession of Molletive, Ceylon.
Page was formally appointed as her commander in April 1796, and in December that year she passed to Commander George Astle. Commander James Hills succeeded Astle in December 1797, and he was in turn succeeded by Commander Volant Vashon Ballard in July 1798. Commander Charles Elphinstone took over in August 1799, and commanded Hobart until being succeeded by Commander Francis Stratton in June 1800. In 1801 she was under Lieutenant Robert Evans, at first in an acting capacity, until his promotion to commander in April 1802.
Fate
Having spent her entire naval career in the East Indies, Hobart was sold at Bombay on 23 February 1803.