Name HMS Vesta Commissioned October 1806 Class and type Adonis-class Launched 1806 | Ordered 2 April 1804 Fate Sold 1816 Tons burthen 110 ⁄94 bm Builder Bermuda | |
HMS Vesta was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806. She appears to have had an astonishingly uneventful decade-long career before the Admiralty sold her in 1816.
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Career
Vesta was commissioned in August 1806 under the command of Lieutenant George Maule for the North America station. In November 1807 Lieutenant Charles Crowdy assumed command. His replacement in June 1808 was Lieutenant George Mends.
Lieutenant George Miall replaced Mends in July 1809. In 1810, Lieutenant William Bowen Mends briefly commanded Vesta before Miall returned to command. Between 18 June and 5 July 1811, Vesta underwent repairs at Plymouth.
On 30 December Vesta and Sabrina captured the Princess de Beira (or Princess Beira). Then on 13 January 1812, Vesta and Sabrina captured the Pepe slave schooner off the coast of Africa.
Almost two years later, on 1 October 1813, Vesta recaptured the Spanish brig St. Francisco de Assis.
Fate
In January 1816 the Admiralty put Vesta up for sale at Deptford. She was sold for £500 on 11 January 1816.