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HELICON
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Built in 1808, Upnor (Cherokee class).
Broken up in 1829. |
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- 1808 Spelman SWAINE, Chatham Downs.
- 1811 Harry HOPKINS, 05/1810, Plymouth, under the orders of Sir Robert CALDER.
In March 1811 she was paid salvage for the BELLA CAMILLA, retaken 3 October 1810. - 1812 cruising in the Channel.
Fifteen miles south of the Eddystone on 22 December 1813 he captured the French privateer schooner REVENANT after a short chase. She was armed with 14 guns and had sailed from St. Malo the previous day.
Other vessels captured or destroyed by HELICON under his command were the ZULMA and a privateer which he drove on shore near St. Marlo.
HELICON also assisted in the capture of the VENUS, a 14-gun schooner. - 1815 Andrew MITCHELL, cruising in Channel.
- 1816 Ditto, Cork.
- 1817 Alexander Barklay BRANCH, 10/1816, Cork.
He moved to HARLEQUIN in February 1818. - 1818 Plymouth.
- 1820 William PETTMAN, 02/1819 Plymouth.
- 1822 W. R. DAWKINS, 05/1821, Plymouth.
- 1823-24 ditto W. Indies.
- 1825 Chas.
ACLAND, 07/1825, Plymouth. - 1827 Ditto, Cape of Good Hope.
- 1828 R. STANHOPE, 01/1828, Cape of Good Hope.
- 1929 Charles TALBOT, 05/1829, in consequence of the defective state of HELICON, TALBOT removed to the ALGERINE building at Chatham on 27 June 1829.
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