page_title: HMS Brazen (1808)
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hierarchical_section_title: HMS Brazen (1808) / Fate
caption_attribution_description: English: Sailor's Floating Church. Resulting from a meeting held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate in July 1825 presided over by the Lord Mayor, it was deemed the best way to promote the spiritual welfare of the seamen and their families was by a floating chapel. The London Episcopal Floating Church Society was thereby founded, and a chaplain appointed, to be assisted by two sailors, their remit to visit seafarers afloat between London Bridge and the Pool, and their families on shore. A suitable boat was provided, and two seamen engaged. The Admiralty provided the ship Brazen, a 26-gun ex sloop-of-war, lately used as a convict ship, to be now employed as a 'floating church', The ship was adapted from May to September 1827 to accommodate 500 hearers, she was renamed Bethel.&#91;1&#93; On 10 February 1828 she was delivered to the Committee of the Floating Church at Deptford, and moored by Rotherhithe parish church. The first service was held on Good Friday, 24 March 1829.The ship capsized in 1832 (with no loss of life) and after repairs was moved in 1834 to a new location on the north side of the Thames, in the Admiralty Tier off the Tower of London. Publisher: The Illustrated London News in 1843 January- June&#91;2&#93; Source of Imageː NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, LONDON
context_page_description: HMS Brazen was a Bittern-class 28-gun Royal Navy ship sloop, launched in 1808.
  Though she served during the Napoleonic Wars, she appears to have missed any combat whatsoever and to have taken few prizes in that conflict. However, in the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom she captured Beaver and Warren in the Gulf of Mexico, but Warren was wrecked on Grand Gosier Island, near New Orleans, in a hurricane. Brazen suffered severe damage in the hurricane and, after local repair, was recalled to England for a survey.
  After the survey she escorted convoys to Canada and back and recaptured Daphne. She then carried the Duke of Brunswick to Holland and patrolled the Irish Sea until her return to the West Indies Station. In 1815, she carried the news of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, to British troops that had captured Fort Bowyer and assisted in carrying them to England. After the war she took part in surveys of the Venezuelan coast and patrolled the Gulf of Mexico, capturing several prizes.
  In the 1820s she served with the West Africa Squadron working to suppress the slave trade.
context_section_description: From May to September 1827 Brazen was fitted out at Chatham as an Anglican floating church destined for the Pool of London. On 10 February 1828 she was delivered to the Committee of the Floating Church at Deptford.The Committee returned her in 1846 and she was broken up at Deptford in July 1848.
caption: HMS Brazen, circa 1829 fitted out as a floating church, and renamed Bethel
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