Capture
On 30 September 1813, ''Trave'' and left the Texel to cruise the Western Islands. However, on 16 October, a gale dismasted both, and separated them. On 21 October, the ship of the line , and the brigs and captured ''Weser''. That same day the brig encountered ''Trave'' and the two exchanged fire that wounded two men aboard ''Trave''. However, ''Trave'' was able to extricate herself from the engagement. The next day ''Trave'' was less fortunate. On 23 October, French frigate Junon (1786), ''Andromache'' captured ''Trave'' after an engagement of only 15 minutes. ''Trave'', having lost her masts in the storm, was sailing under jury-rigged masts and so unable to maneuver. She was armed with twenty-eight French 18-pounder long guns and sixteen 18-pounder carronades, and had a crew of 321 men, almost all Dutch. Before she striking the colours, struck she had one man killed, and 28 men wounded, including her commander ''capitaine de frégate'' Jacob Van Maren, ''Chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de la Réunion''. ''Andromache'' had little damage and only two men wounded. At the time of the capture the ketch was in sight, though it is not clear what she could have added had the engagement lasted longer. More importantly, the frigate was also in sight as ''Trave'' struck.HMS ''Trave''
The Royal Navy took ''Trave'' into service as HMS ''Trave''. Commander Rowland Money was appointed to command her in April. Between March and May she was at Portsmouth being fitted as a troopship and armed ''en flûte''. He then carried elements of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), 4th regiment of Foot from the river Garonne to North America. ''Trave'' was part of a fleet of some dozen warships and several transports that was carrying Major-General Robert Ross (British Army officer), Ross and some 2500 men from three regiments to invade North America. The naval commander was Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm in . The fleet left on 2 June, stopped in at São Miguel Island, St Michels, in the Azores, and arrived at Bermuda 24 July. The fleet left on 4 August and by 20 August was in the Patuxent River. The British, under the command of Alexander Cochrane, Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane then moved up the Patuxent on 20 August, preparing for a landing at Benedict. Money commanded one of the three divisions of boats carrying the fleet's marines and their artillery. The United States's Secretary of the Navy William Jones (statesman), Jones had ordered Commodore Joshua Barney to take his Chesapeake Bay Flotilla as far up the Patuxent as possible, to Queen Anne, Prince George's County, Maryland, Queen Anne, and scuttle it if the British appeared. Leaving his barges with a skeleton crew under the command of Lieutenant Solomon Kireo Frazier to handle any destruction of the craft, Barney took the majority of his men to join the American Army commanded by General William Henry Winder. Frazier scuttled all but one of the vessels, which the British captured, of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla. In 1835 there was a payment of prize money to ''Trave''s crew, and those of numerous other British vessels, for "the capture of the Chesapeake." On 24 August the British moved towards Washington, DC. Money caught up with the army the evening before, bringing with him the naval brigade and the marine's artillery. The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg. They then entered Washington unopposed and set fire to many of the government buildings in what became known as the Burning of Washington. On 30 August the British re-embarked on their vessels at Benedict, and on 9 September sailed to Baltimore. On 12 September Money commanded one of the naval brigades that landed at North Point. He apparently participated in the battle of North Point. From Baltimore ''Trave'' sailed to New Orleans where her boats participated in the battle of Lake Borgne. The British captured five gunboats and took them into service under the names (or ''Ambush No. 5''), , HMS Destruction#HMS Destruction (1814), HMS ''Destruction'', , and . In 1847 the Admiralty (United Kingdom), Admiralty issued a clasp (or bar) marked "14 Dec. Boat Service 1814" to survivors of the boat service who claimed the clasp to the Naval General Service Medal (1847), Naval General Service Medal. On 8 January 1815, during the battle of New Orleans, Money commanded the naval contingent in Lieutenant-colonel William Thornton (British Army officer), Thornton's brigade, which carried out a successful attack on the American position on the western bank of the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Money was severely wounded in the attack. Because Commander Money was badly wounded, Admiral Cochrane sent him home to Britain. In March 1815 Commander William C.C. Kent (acting), or Captain John Boulton, took command of ''Trave''. Commander John Codd replaced Kent on 13 June,Marshall (1830), Supplement, Part 4, p.292. or 13 November 1815.Fate
''Trave'' arrived at Plymouth in July 1816 and the Admiralty placed her Reserve fleet, in Ordinary. She was sold on 7 June 1821 to Mr. Holmes for £2,100 for breaking up.Notes, citations, and references
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