HMS Fly (1813) explained

HMS Fly (1813) was a Royal Navy built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. 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 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, in southern Victoria, Australia.

She was sold in Bombay on 10 April 1828.

See also

• Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet, commander on South American station in 1823

References

• • Laughton . John Knox . Martin, William Fanshawe . 3 . 143–145.
• Parker, William George.
• Wetherall, Frederick Augustus . 1849b.
• Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. 2008. 1-86176-246-1.