HMS Harlequin

Five vessels of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Navy/Xdy8YCH7">Royal Navy</a> have been named HMS Harlequin.

<ul><li>HMS Harlequin (1796) was a <a href="/facts/Schooner/MESqdu0m">schooner</a> of 14 guns, purchased in 1796 in the West Indies and still listed in 1802.</li>
<li>HMS Harlequin (1813) was a <a href="/facts/Cruizer-class_brig-sloop/zp0mpX23">Cruizer-class</a> <a href="/facts/Brig-sloop/LKXBvGkw">brig-sloop</a> of 18 guns, launched in 1813 and sold in Jamaica in 1829.</li>
<li>HMS Harlequin (1814) was an American gunboat captured at the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Lake_Borgne/IsQcaB6l">Battle of Lake Borgne</a> on 14 December 1814. Lieutenant James Hunter, who had been wounded at the battle, was appointed to command her with a commission dated 27 February 1815, and she was paid off in June 1815. The Admiralty formally purchased her in 1815 in the West Indies and she was still listed as a tender in Bermuda in 1816. Prize money for her and the other vessels captured at the battle was paid in July 1821.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/HMS_Harlequin_(1836)/HVGa9WHf">HMS Harlequin (1836)</a> was a brig-sloop of 16 guns launched in 1836, converted to a coal hulk in 1860 and sold in 1889.</li>
<li>HMS Harlequin was a wood screw sloop of 950 tons burthen (<a href="/facts/Builder%27s_Old_Measurement/QxeoNSTq">bm</a>), laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard on 13 February 1861 and cancelled on 16 February 1864.</li></ul>
The Royal Navy also employed a <a href="/facts/Hired_armed_vessels/kPL2pUcg">hired armed ship</a> <a href="/facts/Hired_armed_ship_Harlequin/aFn0ETJm">Harlequin</a> in 1804; she was wrecked on 7 December 1809.

HMS Harlequin open-in-new

HMS Harlequin