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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name= HMS Halifax | Ship namesake=Halifax, Nova Scotia | Ship ordered=27 November 1802 | Ship builder=Halifax Naval Yard, Master Shipwright William Hughes | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=11 October 1806 | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship fate= Broken up 1814 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Merlin-class ship sloop | Ship type= | 32|94}} bm[1] | 106|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)- {{convert|87|ft|7|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)
| 28|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 13|ft|9|in|m|2|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion= | Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship | Ship complement=121 | Ship armament=16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow chasers | Ship notes=
}} | {{otherships|HMS Halifax}}HMS Halifax was a ship-rigged sloop of the Merlin class built in 1806 for the British Royal Navy at the Naval Yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia.{{sfnp|Lyon|1993|p=131}} Built to fill a pressing need for coastal patrol sloops on the North American Station, Halifax was one of the few warships built at Halifax Naval Yard in the Age of Sail as the yard's primary function was supply and refit.{{sfnp|Gwyn|2004}} ServiceHalifax was commissioned under Commander John Nairne, for the Halifax Station.[2] In November 1806 Commander Lord James Townshend assumed command.[2] A deserter from HMS Halifax, Jenkin Ratford, was one of the men seized from USS Chesapeake in 1807 during the controversial Chesapeake-Leopard Affair. Ratford was hanged from the yardarm of Halifax on 31 August 1807.{{sfnp|Gwyn|2003|p=178}} Halifax arrived in Plymouth on 16 January 1808 to make good defects.[2] Townshend was promoted to post-captain on 2 January 1809. On 2 March, Halifax, still under Townshend's command, captured a fast, new French schooner, Caroline,[3] which was subsequently commissioned as {{HMS|Caroline|1809|6}}.{{sfnp|Gwyn|2003|p=180}} Commander John Thompson replaced Townshend, and then in 1810 Commander Alexander Fraser replaced Thompson, still at Halifax.[2]FateHalifax was laid up in ordinary at Portsmouth from 1812 to 1814. She was broken up in January 1814. Footnotes1. ^{{harvp|Winfield|2004|p=66}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{harvp|Winfield|2005|p=259}}
3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=16479|page=762|date=23 April 1811}}
References - {{Colledge}}, p. 251.
- {{cite book|last=Gwyn|first=Julian|title=Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzV49UC6mnkC&pg=PP1|date=2003|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-0911-5|ref=harv}}
- {{cite book|last=Gwyn|first=Julian|title=Ashore and Afloat: The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard Before 1820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENKsOwzbDwoC&pg=PP1|year=2004|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|isbn=978-0-7766-3031-1|ref=harv}}
- {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Lyon|first=David|title=The sailing navy list: all the ships of the Royal Navy, built, purchased and captured, 1688-1860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lxnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP1|year=1993|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|isbn=978-0-85177-617-0}}
- {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Winfield|first=Rif|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 – 1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge8kCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|year=2005|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|isbn=978-1-78346-926-0}}
- {{winfield}}
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