HMS ''Fly'' (1813) was a
Royal Navy
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built by
Jabez Bailey at
Ipswich
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. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched on 16 February 1813 and commissioned May 1813.
She served:
* on the Channel station under Sir William G. Parker from May 1813,
* on the
Newfoundland Station from June 1814 until paid off in April 1815,
* on the Cork station, after recommissioning in 1818, until December 1821,
* on
Cape of Good Hope Station
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from December 1821,
* in South America from 1823,
* in East Indies from 1825.
In December 1826 ''Fly'', under Captain Frederick Augustus Wetherall, supported the short-lived settlement of
Western Port
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, in southern
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
,
Australia.
She was sold in
Bombay
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on 10 April 1828.
See also
*
Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet
Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, (5 December 180124 March 1895), was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he provided valuable support to British merchants at Callao in Peru in the early 1820s during the Peruvian War of Ind ...
, commander on South American station in 1823
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Brig-sloops of the Royal Navy
1813 ships
Cruizer-class brig-sloops