HMS Levant (1758)
Levant's sister ship in the Coventry class, HMS Carysfort
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History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Levant |
Ordered | 6 May 1757 |
Builder | Henry Adams, Buckler's Hard, Hampshire |
Laid down | June 1757 |
Launched | 6 July 1758 at Buckler's Hard |
Completed | 16 June 1759 at Portsmouth Dockyard |
Commissioned | October 1758 |
In service |
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Out of service | 1779 |
Honours and awards | Expedition against Martinique, 1762 |
Fate | Broken up at Deptford Dockyard, September 1780 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 28-gun frigate |
Tons burthen | 595 34⁄94 bm |
Length | |
Beam | 33 ft 11 in (10.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 200 |
Armament |
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HMS Levant was a 28-gun
The frigate was
The ageing frigate was finally removed from Navy service later that year, and her crew discharged to other vessels. She was broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1780, having secured a total of 31 victories over 21 years at sea.
Construction
Levant was an oak-built 28-gun
The contract for Levant's construction were issued on 20 May 1757 to
After consultation with Admiralty, Adams took advantage of this freedom to make four substantive changes to the Tartar design. The ship's wheel was moved from behind the
Levant's
The vessel was named after
Seven Years' War
1758–1760
Levant was launched on 6 July 1758 and sailed to
The British squadron, of which Levant was part, was tasked with disrupting French trade through the Caribbean and hunting privateers. However the frigate saw little action in her first six months in the region; French trade had virtually ceased since the outbreak of war with Britain, while a smallpox outbreak killed some among Levant's crew. In November 1759, Levant and the Antigua-based privateer Bristol captured two French vessels loaded with coffee and sugar heading to trade at the neutral Dutch island of Sint Eustatius.[20] It was not until early 1760 that Levant defeated her first armed opponent, a 14-gun French privateer which was sunk with the loss of 120 of her crew.[21] Thereafter combat was more frequent. Two small privateers were captured in early 1760 – the 8-gun Poissan Volante and the 12-gun St Pierre – and these vessels and their crews were delivered into British custody on the Leeward Islands.[18] In June Pickering, a British merchantman previously captured by the French, was retaken and sailed to Antigua as Levant's prize.[22] A further victory followed on 29 June with the capture of French privateer Le Scipio,[5][23] after which Levant was put into harbour in Antigua for resupply. One contemporary source at this time records her as carrying only 20 of her 28 guns.[24] She returned to sea before the end of the year, capturing the privateer L'Union on 18 December.[5]
1761–1762
"The Clerk of our Ship is dead, and several others of the Ship's Company; many people die daily of the Small Pox, which distemper is all over the island of Antigua ...
[The French] dependence is on their privateers; the seas swarm with them."
— Extract of a letter from a crew member of Levant, describing conditions aboard in 1759–60.[21]
British military successes in European waters in 1760 offered freedom for the Navy to support offensive operations in the Caribbean in the following year. In January Major General Robert Monckton set sail from North America to the Caribbean with 2,000 men and four ships of the line, for a planned invasion of French Dominica.[25] Levant saw little action in advance of Monckton's arrival and captured only one vessel, the privateer La Catherine, on 15 February.[26] Monckton arrived in Antigua shortly after this capture; Captain Tucker was then deputised to carry the general aboard Levant for a visit to the various Leeward Island settlements while the invasion force assembled at Guadeloupe.[27] Monckton departed the Leeward Islands in April and Levant resumed her hunt for privateers, capturing La Dulcinée on 13 July and L'Aventurier six days later.[5] Another French privateer, Conquerant, was captured on 19 November while Levant was in company with her fellow Royal Navy frigate, the 26-gun Emerald.[28] At least four other vessels were also taken in this period; Superbe, Polly, Petit-Creolle and Elizabeth.[29]
Dominica having fallen to Monckton's forces in June, the British then set their sights on the French stronghold of
Levant then returned to her station off the Leeward Islands, arriving there on 10 February. Captain Tucker had fallen ill with gout, and on 20 February he was replaced by Captain John Laforey, previously of the sixth-rate HMS Echo.[5][32][e] Levant made one capture under Laforey's command, and her last victory in that war, when she defeated French privateer La Fier on 13 May 1762.[5][35]
Date | Ship | Nationality | Type | Fate | Ref. |
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March 1760 | Not recorded | French | Privateer, 14 guns | Sunk | [21] |
By April 1760 | Poissan Volante | French | Privateer, 8 guns | Captured | [18] |
29 April 1760 | Le Saint Pierre | French | Privateer, 12 guns | Captured | [5][18] |
After April 1760 | Superbe | French | Not recorded | Captured | [29][18] |
After April 1760 | Polly | Not recorded | Not recorded | Captured | [29][18] |
After April 1760 | Petit-Creolle | French | Not recorded | Captured | [29][18] |
After April 1760 | Elizabeth | Not recorded | Not recorded | Captured | [29][18] |
June 1760 | Pickering | British | Merchant vessel | Recaptured | [22] |
29 June 1760 | Le Scipio | French | Privateer, 10 guns | Captured | [5][23] |
19 November 1760 | Conquerant | French | Privateer | Captured | [28] |
18 December 1760 | L'Union | French | Privateer | Captured | [5] |
15 February 1761 | La Catherine | French | Privateer, 10 guns | Captured | [5][26] |
13 July 1761 | La Dulcinée | French | Privateer | Captured | [5] |
19 July 1761 | L'Aventurier | French | Privateer | Captured | [5] |
13 May 1762 | Le Fier | French | Privateer | Captured | [5] |
Peacetime service
The 1763
There were rumours that Levant would swiftly return to active service,[38] but these proved unfounded and she remained tied up at Portsmouth. Her hull and fittings were surveyed in late 1763 to determine maintenance requirements, but no repairs were made.[5] In September 1763 a member of her skeleton crew was robbed and murdered at Liphook, a village some distance from Portsmouth.[39]
Levant returned to Navy service in 1766 under the command of Captain Basil Keith, and was assigned to patrol and convoy duties on the Navy's Jamaica Station. In August she docked at Deptford to take on crew and supplies, setting sail for the Caribbean on 28 November.[5][40] Levant held her Jamaica post for three years, but this extensive service in tropical waters left her in poor condition. In 1770 she returned to Deptford Dockyard where she was decommissioned and hauled out of the water for rebuilding. The work was granted to shipwright John Dudman and took six months from November 1770 to April 1771. Repair and rebuilding expenses were £5,869 with an additional £3,059 for fitting-out, considerably more than the vessel's original construction cost of £5,423.[5]
The rebuilt frigate was recommissioned in August 1771 under Captain Samuel Thompson. After four months in home waters she was assigned to the Navy's Mediterranean squadron and took up position off
American Revolutionary War
1775–1777
"Levant ordered her to strike; the Captain of the Privateer said she would not, upon which he was told by the Levant's people that they would in a few minutes sink her ... the Privateer immediately struck without firing a gun."
— A contemporaneous account of the capture of the 14-gun American privateer General Montgomery, March 1777.[41]
Levant returned to Portsmouth in early 1775, but put to sea again on 22 June amid the early stages of the
Mediterranean trade was busy, and Levant took part in halting and examining vessels with crews of various nationalities including Dutch, Genoese, Spanish, and the British Caribbean.[42] Neutral shipping was permitted to continue on its way. However Levant detained a South Carolina merchantman named Dolphin in October 1776, on suspicion of being a supply vessel for the rebels, and sent her into Gibraltar along with her cargo of rice.[43] In November 1776 Levant secured a substantial prize with the capture of another South Carolina vessel, Argo,[44] carrying rice and indigo worth £37,200.[45] Argo was to have exchanged her cargo in Bordeaux for clothing and medicine to supply the American rebellion.[46]
Further success followed in early 1777 with the capture of the 18-gun American privateer General Montgomery.
1778–1780
Levant continued her Mediterranean patrols in 1778 and was rewarded on 24 March with the recapture of a British merchantman which had been bound for
France entered the war against Britain after signing a formal Treaty with the United States in March 1778. There was a subsequent reorganization of Royal Navy forces in the Mediterranean, with Levant joining a squadron of four other vessels based in Gibraltar under the overall direction of Admiral Robert Duff. Of this squadron, Levant was the second largest, behind only Duff's 60-gun flagship HMS Panther.[51] In July Levant encountered and captured Robert, an American merchant vessel that had been bound for Boston with a cargo of salt.[52] In August she took her first French prize of the War – a merchantman with a cargo of tobacco – and recaptured the British schooner Lively, which had previously been seized by an American privateer off Scotland's Western Islands.[53] Two more French prizes followed: Victorieux seized en route to Marseilles, and Duchess of Grumont, which surrendered off Toulon. The captured vessels were sent under guard to Gibraltar.[54]
These ongoing victories belied the changing conditions applicable to Levant's hunt for enemy vessels off Gibraltar. American vessels had become scarce, especially since Spain had closed her ports to them in the winter of 1777 in retaliation for privateer attacks on Spanish ships.[55] French trading vessels remained at sea but were occasionally accompanied by naval escorts large enough to prevent their capture by Gibraltar's small Royal Navy squadron.[56] Levant was careened on a beach at Gibraltar over Christmas 1778 and then returned to sea, but her next capture was not until 14 March 1779 when in company with Captain Rich's Enterprise she seized a French vessel, Thésée.[56][57] A further victory followed on 1 April when Levant, still in company with Enterprise, took Eclair, a French xebec carrying wine and brandy from Marseilles.[58][59][f]
On 12 April 1779 Spain signed the Treaty of Aranjuez with France, setting terms for a joint military alliance against Britain. Despite the Treaty Spain delayed the formal declaration of war until June, to give time for better co-ordination of its battle fleet.[60][61] In the interim Levant engaged and defeated a Spanish privateer whose crew were caught in the act of boarding a British merchant ship. A brief exchange of cannon fire holed the Spanish vessel below the waterline, sinking her; Levant rescued the majority of her crew and transported them to prison in Gibraltar.[62]
Captain Murray then took Levant on a cruise to hunt for French or American vessels off Cadiz. While pursuing this task in June 1779 he ran across the Spanish battle fleet, comprising 32 ships of the line and two frigates, heading south towards an unknown destination.[63] Spain was still nominally a neutral power and after a brief exchange of pleasantries the Spanish fleet left Levant unmolested and continued on its way. Murray immediately set sail for England to report that the Spanish were at sea, pausing off Land's End on 17 July to capture the French privateer La Revanche.[64] Levant finally reached Portsmouth in late July but by this time Murray's news of the Spanish fleet was out of date; Spain had already declared war on Britain and her fleet had reached Gibraltar to commence an extended siege.[60][65]
Date | Ship | Nationality | Type | Fate | Ref. |
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October 1776 | Dolphin | American | Merchant vessel | Captured | [43] |
28 November 1776 | Argo | American | Merchant vessel | Captured | [44][45][46] |
9 March 1777 | General Montgomery | American | Privateer, 18 guns | Captured | [5][41] |
24 March 1778 | Not recorded | British | Merchant vessel | Recaptured | [49] |
24 March 1778 | Hope | British | Merchant vessel | Recaptured | [49] |
By late July 1778 | Robert | American | Merchant vessel | Captured | [52] |
August 1778 | Not recorded | French | Merchant vessel | Captured | [53] |
August 1778 | Lively | British | Merchant vessel | Recaptured | [53] |
September 1778 | Victorieux | French | Merchant vessel | Captured | [54] |
September 1778 | Duchess of Grumont | French | Merchant vessel | Captured | [54] |
14 March 1779 | Thésée | French | Not recorded | Captured | [57] |
1 April 1779 | Eclair | French | Merchant vessel | Captured | [56][59] |
By June 1779 | Not recorded | Spanish | Privateer | Sunk | [62] |
17 July 1779 | La Revanche | French | Privateer | Captured | [5][64] |
October 1779 | Nine Colliers | British | Merchant vessel | Recaptured | [57] |
October 1779 | Velenza de Alcantara | Spanish | Privateer, 20 guns | Captured | [66] |
Final voyages
Murray was ordered to take Levant back to sea immediately, departing Portsmouth on 27 July as escort to a convoy of merchant vessels bound for the Yorkshire port of Kingston upon Hull.[67] The ageing frigate then briefly joined a small Navy squadron on patrol off Brighton before setting sail for the Spanish coast.[68][66] On 5 August she took part in the recapture of a British merchant vessel, Nine Colliers.[57] She was off Cadiz in October 1779 when she won her final victory of the war, capturing the 20-gun Spanish privateer Velenza de Alcantara along with 200 of her crew.[66]
But by month's end Levant was back in Portsmouth, where she was decommissioned and her crew discharged to other vessels.
Despite Levant's age there was still some consideration of restoring her to active service. As late as 1 August 1780 there were newspaper reports that she was "repairing and will soon be fit for sea",[71] but no repairs were made. On 16 August, Admiralty issued orders that she be sailed to Deptford Dockyard where, on 27 September, she was broken up.[5] Her passing was mourned by her crew, with their sentiments recorded by Levant's former first lieutenant, Erasmus Gower, that "having captured so considerable a number of prizes ... few vessels, perhaps, have ever quitted a station with more éclat respecting herself, and more regret from the officers and other persons concerned, who derived advantage from her good fortune and the activity of her people."[72]
References
Notes
- Thames River shipwrights to build 24-gun Royal Navy vessels over the previous decade,[6] but was less than the average £9.9s fee for Coventry-class vessels built in private shipyards between 1756 and 1765.[1]
- ^ The 29 servants and other ranks provided for in the ship's complement consisted of 20 personal servants and clerical staff, four assistant carpenters, an assistant sailmaker and four widow's men. Unlike naval ratings, servants and other ranks took no part in the sailing or handling of the ship.[10]
- ^ The exceptions to these naming conventions were Hussar, Active and the final vessel in the class, Hind[1][12]
- ^ Levant's dimensional ratios 3.57:1 in length to breadth, and 3.3:1 in breadth to depth, compare with standard French equivalents of up to 3.8:1 and 3:1 respectively. Royal Navy vessels of equivalent size and design to Levant were capable of carrying up to 20 tons of powder and shot, compared with a standard French capacity of around 10 tons. They also carried greater stores of rigging, spars, sails and cables, but had fewer ship's boats and less space for the possessions of the crew.[13]
- ^ Tucker subsequently resigned from the Navy and returned to England.[33] He inherited £10,000 on the death of his uncle Ralph Allan in 1764, and a further £5,000 when Allan's widow died in 1766.[17][34] Tucker's own poor health persisted and he died in 1770 at the age of 43.[33]
- ^ Other sources indicate Eclair was captured on 31 March 1779.[57]
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