HMS Fisgard

HMS Fisgard (1819)

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Name	Fisgard (1819)	Explanation
Type	Fifth rate
Launched	8 July 1819
Hull	Wooden
Propulsion	Sail
Builders measure	1068 tons
Displacement
Guns	46
Fate	1879
Class	Leda
Ships book
Note
Snippets concerning this vessels career
Date	Event
(January 1840)	Out of commission at Plymouth
13 May 1843	Commanded by Captain John Alexander Duntze, Pacific
24 October 1847 - 18 September 1848	Commanded by Commodore James John Gordon Bremer, Woolwich
17 November 1848 - 30 December 1853	Commanded by Commodore Henry Eden, Woolwich
31 December 1853 - 21 December 1858	Commanded by Commodore John Shepherd, Woolwich
21 December 1858 - 14 June 1861	Commanded by Commodore James Robert Drummond, Woolwich, and Supervisor of Woolwich Yard
1 July 1861 - 31 December 1863	Commanded by Commodore Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Woolwich
18 February 1863	Commanded by Captain Frederick Archibald Campbell, Woolwich
1 January 1864	Commanded by Commodore Hugh Dunlop, Woolwich
9 April 1866	Commanded by Commodore William Edmonstone, Woolwich
6 April 1868	Commanded by Commodore William Edmonstone, Woolwich
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
Fr 9 July 1847	The following ships have served the usual period of commission (three years); many have exceeded that term, and are on their way home to be paid off or are ordered to return as soon as relieved:— EAST INDIA STATION. The Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief; having been relieved by the Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, Rear-Admiral Inglefield. The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood. The Castor, 36, Captain Graham. The Iris, 26, Captain Mundy. The Pilot, 16, Commander Wilson. The Wolf, 16, Commander Vansittart. The Spiteful steam sloop, Commander Sir W. Hoste, Bart. MEDITERRANEAN. The Albion, 90, Captain Fremantle. The America, 50, Captain Sir T. Maitland. The Flamer steam sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Lavie. The Hecla steam sloop, Commander Starmer. The Virago steam sloop, Commander Lunn. PACIFIC STATION. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief. The Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze. The Modeste, 18, Captain Watkins. The Cormorant steam sloop, Commander Seymour. THE BRAZILS. The Curaçoa, 24, Captain Broughton. The Racer, 16, Commander Reed. The Satellite, 16, Commander Rowley. THE WEST INDIES. The Hermes steam sloop, Commander Carr. COAST OF AFRICA. The Prometheus steam sloop, Commander Hay. The Sealark, 6, Acting-Commander Whyte. COAST OF IRELAND. The Comet steam sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Johnstone. The Stromboli steam sloop, Commander Fisher.
Tu 11 May 1869	THE NAVAL RESERVE. Yesterday about 250 men of this force were gathered together in the Minories previous to marching down to London-bridge to embark on board a river steamer and proceed by water to Sheerness, there to join Her Majesty's ship Agincourt for a fortnight's cruise and training in the Channel Squadron. These, however, were not the only body of men which assembled yesterday for the same purpose, for one may say that at all the great stations of the Naval Reserve throughout the United Kingdom a similar muster went on, and the men were all volunteers, who had come forward in answer to an invitation to train for two weeks on board the regular ships of war. Though this is the very busiest time of a sailor's year, when the spring opens up all the coasting trade and the traffic of the North Sea, and the men can get engagements at almost any terms, no less than 1,900 responded voluntarily to the call, and were yesterday embarked from various ports for service on board Her Majesty’s ships Duncan, Agincourt, Hector, St. George, Mersey, Donegal, Black Prince, Trafalgar, Royal George, and Valiant. The object of this movement is to give both the officers and men of the Naval Reserve a good acquaintance with the real routine of the discipline of the Royal Navy. In mere seamanship they have nothing to learn, for the men of the Naval Reserve are the very pick of the Mercantile Marine, and their lieutenants and commanders are the most skilled officers of our finest lines of steam and sailing vessels. The Naval Reserve now numbers about 16,000 men. Its numbers have stood at a higher figure, but the Applications to enter the force have been so numerous, and its popularity in some ports has been so great, that it is now easy to make a choice of men, and to weed out those who were at first admitted, but for whose places better applicants can now be got. Of this force of 16,000 men about 5,000 would be available in a single week, and at the lowest estimate at least 12,000 within six months, with about 600 of the best officers of the Mercantile Marine. Yesterday at the muster in the Minories all the men who attended were fine, active, thorough-going sailors. Of course, most of them came to the rendezvous with their wives, and of course the wives brought all the children they could conveniently lead or carry. So there was great cheering as the men, headed by their band and colours, marched down to London-bridge, where they were to embark on board the Saloon steamer the Princess Alice, to take them to the Agincourt at Sheerness. With the men went Mr. J.J. Mayo, the Registrar-General of Seamen, Captain Allen Young, Captain Brown, Captain Gardiner, &c. The crews of the vessels in the Pool, the crews of the Fisgard and the training ship Worcester, turned out and cheered the steamer as it passed, and the men of the Naval Reserve roared themselves hoarse in response, and then betook to hornpipes to wile away the shining hours. The fun and merriment on board the steamer were incessant, till the iron walls of the Agincourt were reached, when the men went demurely but cheerily on board, and at once seemed to settle down into their temporary home.

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