# HMS Netley (1808)

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For other ships named List of ships named Nimrod, see [HMS Netley](/source/HMS_Netley).

**HMS *Netley*** was the American schooner ***Nimrod***, launched at Baltimore in 1803 or 1804. The [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) seized her in 1807, purchased her in 1808, and renamed her *Netley*. She participated in the 1810 invasion of Guadeloupe and also was the cause of an incident at Baltimore that same year. She was probably sold in 1814.

## American schooner

*Nimrod* was launched in 1803 or 1804,[4] at Baltimore.

In 1807 she was at Baltimore with a cargo of sugar, cocoa, coffee, sarsaparilla, and hides, having returned from a voyage to the West Indies. She set sail again carrying a Spanish certificate attesting that she was carrying wheat to the British army in Spain. Although such a voyage would have been illegal under the United States's [Embargo Act of 1807](/source/Embargo_Act_of_1807), the hope was that the certificate would protect *Nimrod* from seizure by the British.[5]

The British nevertheless seized *Nimrod*. On 27 September 1807 [HMS *Dryad*](/source/HMS_Dryad_(1795)) captured *Nimrod*, H. Nicholayson, master.[6]

## Royal Navy service

After the Royal Navy seized her in 1807, it purchased her in 1808. It named her *Netley*, there being a [HMS *Nimrod*](/source/HMS_Nimrod_(1799)) in service, and [HMS *Netley*](/source/HMS_Netley_(1807)) just having been lost. Lieutenant Jackson was her commander between 1809 and 1812.

*Netley*, Lieutenant Jackson, participated in the [capture of Guadeloupe](/source/Invasion_of_Guadeloupe_(1810)) in January and February 1810.[a] In 1847 the [Admiralty](/source/British_Admiralty) awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe" to all surviving participants of the campaign.

*Netley* then sailed to Baltimore for supplies and possibly dispatches. While she was there local residents of [Fells Point](/source/Fells_Point) heard that she had an impressed American on board. A deputation came to the brig, confronted Jackson, and informed him that he had one hour to release the American, which he did, sailing away shortly thereafter.[7]

Lieutenant G. Green replaced Jackson in 1812.

## Fate

*Netley* went into [Ordinary](/source/Reserve_fleet) in 1813 and was probably sold in 1814.

## Notes

1. A first-class share of the prize money for Guadaloupe was worth £113 3s 1¼d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth £1 9s 1¼d.[8]

## Citations

1. No. 20939. 26 January 1849. p. 243.

1. ["NMM, vessel ID 372034"](http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041555/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_viii.pdf). *Warship Histories, vol viii*. [National Maritime Museum](/source/National_Maritime_Museum). Archived from [the original](http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_viii.pdf) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.

1. Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 226.

1. Footner (1998), p. 194.

1. [\[1\]](http://marylandarchivist.blogspot.com/2015/04/recreating-lost-neighborhoods-house-on.html) *Reflections by a Maryland Archivist*: "Recreating Lost Neighborhoods: The House on Ann Street, Fells Point, Baltimore City, Maryland". Accessed 7 January 2020.

1. No. 16458. 23 February 1811. p. 362.

1. "The Mediterranean, and Ev. Post: The brig Bianchy, Capt. Cotton, arrived last evening in 55 days from Algiers." *National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser* [Washington, District Of Columbia] 12 Sept. 1810. Web. 7 Jan. 2020.

1. No. 16938. 24 September 1814. pp. 1923–1924.

## References

- Colledge, J. J. & Warlow, Ben (2006 [1969]). *Ships of the Royal Navy*. Rev. ed. London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. [OCLC 67375475](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67375475)
- Footner, Geoffrey M. (1998). *Tidewater triumph : the development and worldwide success of the Chesapeake Bay pilot schooner*. Mystic Seaport Museum. ISBN 0-913372-80-3. [OCLC 40579757](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40579757)

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