HMS Elizabeth (1805 cutter)

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NameHMS Elizabeth
Acquired1805 by capture
FateFoundered c. September 1807
Tons burthen110 (bm)
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Elizabeth
Acquired1805 by capture
FateFoundered c. September 1807
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen110 (bm)
Sail planCutter (or schooner)
Complement55[2]
Armament10 guns

HMS Elizabeth was a Spanish dispatch cutter named Elizabet that HMS Bacchante captured off Havana in 1805. The British Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. She disappeared in 1807, believed foundered without a trace.

On 3 April 1805, Bacchante captured the Spanish naval cutter or schooner Elizabeth of ten guns and 47 men under the command of Don Josef Fer Fexegron. Elizabeth had been carrying dispatches from the Spanish governor of Pensacola, but had thrown these overboard before her capture.[3][a]

HMS, and loss

The Royal Navy commissioned Elizabeth in 1806 under Lieutenant John Sedley.[1] She disappeared c. September 1807 without a trace, presumed to have foundered with all hands.[5]

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