HMS Peruvian (1808)
Peruvian | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Peruvian |
| Builder | Parson's Yard, Warsash |
| Launched | 1808 |
| Commissioned | May 1808 |
| Decommissioned | July 1816 |
| Fate | Broken up, February 1830 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 384 bm |
| Length | 100 ft 6 in (30.63 m) o/a |
| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Sail plan | Brig |
| Complement | 121 |
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HMS Peruvian was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1808, at Parson's Yard, Warsash, England. She was the first naval vessel built at that yard. Peruvian captured two American privateers and participated in an expedition up the Penobscot River during the War of 1812. Then she claimed Ascension Island for Great Britain in 1815. She was broken up in 1830.