| 词条 | HMS Leven (1813) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Napoleonic warsAfter commissioning at Woolwich in October 1814, Leven was employed on the coast of La Vendee during Napoleon Bonaparte's final campaign,[2] under the command of Captain Buckland Stirling Bluett.[3] Survey serviceShe was decommissioned at Chatham in 1816, and, in August 1818, she was transferred to the Royal Navy's Survey Service under the command of Captain David Ewen Bartholomew, who set off to survey part of the west African coast and the Cape Verde Islands. Bartholomew died at Porto Praya in Santiago on 19 February 1821; his first lieutenant, Robert Baldey, returned Leven to Spithead on 23 July, after an abortive attempt to map the River Gambia.[4] Command of the ship passed to Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen, who had risen to prominence following his surveys of the Great Lakes. In August 1821, in the company of the brig-sloop {{HMS|Barracouta|1820|2}}, Leven departed for Africa again, with orders to map eastward from the Cape of Good Hope. Amending orders later extended the mission to include a survey of the entire east coast of Africa as well as southern Arabia, Madagascar, and several island groups in the Indian Ocean. On their return journey, long stretches of the west African coastline and the River Gambia were surveyed,[5] several slave ships were apprehended and support was given to British forces in the First Anglo-Ashanti War. By the time she returned home late in 1826, {{convert|30,000|nmi|km}} of coast had been surveyed and 83 charts prepared.[4] This had been achieved at a terrible cost; half the crew of the two little ships had been killed by tropical diseases.[6] Harbour dutiesLeven was decommissioned in February 1827, and was fitted out as a hospital ship. By 1830, she was a prison hulk at Chatham and, in 1842, was the receiving ship at Limehouse. She was finally broken-up in July 1848.[4]External links
References1. ^http://www.zulani.co.za/St%20Lucia%20History/ {{Cyrus class post ship}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Leven (1813)}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/L/02705.html|title=HMS Leven at the Naval Database website|accessdate=2011-09-15}} 3. ^http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=3557 4. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1323|title=HMS Leven at the Age of Nelson website|accessdate=2011-09-15}} 5. ^Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VII 6. ^"The Hell-Borne Traffic", article by Jordan Goodman, Geographical, September 2007 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107111405/http://www.geographical.co.uk/Magazine/William_Owen_Sep07.html |date=7 January 2012 }} 6 : 1813 ships|Exploration ships of the United Kingdom|Cyrus-class post ships|Exploration of Africa|Prison ships|Survey vessels of the Royal Navy |
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