HMS Havannah ( 1811 ) HMS " Havannah " was a Royal Navy 36 - gun fifth - rate frigate . She was launched in 1811 and was one of twenty - seven " Apollo " - class frigates . She was cut down to a 24 - gun sixth rate in 1845 , converted to a training ship in 1860 and sold for breaking in 1905 . War service . " Havannah " s first captain was George Cadogan , who commissioned her into the Channel Fleet . " Havannah " was rapidly involved in operations against French coastal shipping off the Channel Islands . On 6 September 1811 , the boats of " Havannah " , under the command of her first lieutenant William Hamley , landed a party that spiked the three 12 - pounder guns of a battery on the south - west side of the Penmarks . They then brought out several coasting vessels that had taken refuge under the guns , all without taking any losses . On 25 December " Havannah " sailed for the Mediterranean . In 1812 , Cadogan took " Havannah " to join the squadron operating in the Adriatic from the island of Lissa . On 24 April 1812 , and " Havannah " landed Lieutenant - colonel George Duncan Robertson , his staff and a garrison at Port St . George on Lissa . The British had defeated a French naval force on 13 March at the Battle of Lissa and wanted to establish a base there with Robertson as its first Governor . In early 1813 " Havannah " was detached to the Northern Italian coast where she a five - month campaign on the shipping and shore facilities of Vasto and its environs . On 6 January 1813 " Havannah " s boats cut out Gunboat No . 8 , armed with one long 24 - pounder gun . She had a crew of 35 men under the command of M . Joseph Floreus , Enseigne de Vaisseau . Despite meeting a superior force and coming under small arms fire from the shore , the boats , under Lieutenant Hamley , captured the gunboat and three merchant vessels , their original target , as well . The British had one man killed and two men wounded in the operation . In May 1821 , prize money for the gunboat , the three merchant vessels " St Antonio No . 1 " , " St Antonio No . 2 " and " St Antonio No . 3 " was awarded , as well as prize money for two other vessels taken that day , the " Madona del Rosario " and the settee " Euphemia " . On 14 January " Havannah " and captured two small trabacolos . Three weeks later , on 7 February , " Havannah " destroyed four gunboats at Manfredonia . In numerous actions , she seized dozens of ships and destroyed coastal batteries . For instance , on 22 March 1813 the ship ' s boats captured one " trabaccolo " , armed with three 9 - pounder guns and destroyed another , at Vasto . Then on 26 March , her boats brought out five armed trabacolos and five felucca s laden with salt that had been run up on the beach near the town of Fortore . In both actions the enemy lost at least one man killed , while the British had only two men wounded in all . In May 1821 prize money for ten trabaccolos , one parenza , five feluccas , and their cargoes , captured between 22 March and 5 May , was paid . On 18 July , while off Manfredonia , " Havannah " , with the sloop , attacked a small convoy and captured or destroyed all the vessels . They captured one Neapolitan gunboat armed with one 18 - pounder gun , and burnt another . They also destroyed a pinnace armed with one 6 - pounder gun . Lastly , they captured two trabaccolos armed with three guns each and laden with salt , and destroyed two others of the same strength and cargo . In November 1813 , " Havannah " was attached to Thomas Fremantle ' s squadron that blockaded and besieged Trieste . She was then detached to take the port of Zara with the assistance of . Cadogan used the ships ' guns to establish batteries armed with two 32 - pounder carronades , eight 18 - pounder guns and seven long 12 - pounder guns . He then attacked the city and captured it with the aid of some Austrian troops . In all , they captured 110 guns and 18 howitzers , 350 men , 100 dismounted guns and 12 gunboats . Cadogan was later instructed to hand over all prizes and spoils of war to the Austrians . ( This order cost the crews of " Havannah " and " Weazle " an estimated ₤300 , 000 in prize money . ) The Emperor of Austria , however , awarded Lieutenant Hamley the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold for his services at Zara . On 9 December " Havannah " and " Weazel " destroyed 17 gunboats . In 1814 " Havannah " came under the command of Captain James Black ( acting . On 6 February 1814 , " Apollo " and " Havannah " were anchored outside of Brindisi while the French frigate " Uranie " was inside the port , on fire . had chased her into the port some weeks earlier while awaiting the officials of the port , which belonged to the Kingdom of Naples , to respond to the presence of the French vessel . When " Apollo " appeared on the scene and made signs of being about to enter the port , " Uranie " s captain removed the powder from his ship and set her on fire . On 15 April 1814 , days before the end of the war , " Havannah " , under the command of ( temporary ) Captain Edward Sibly , captured the French privateer schooner " Grande Isabelle " off Corfu , together with the schooner ' s prize . The schooner carried four guns and 64 men and had sailed from Corfu on 9 April , before capturing a vessel sailing from Trieste to Messina . Captain Gawen Hamilton recommissioned " Havannah " in April 1814 at Portsmouth . On 19 July 1815 , " Havannah " was in company with , , , and " Ferret " when they captured the French vessels " Fortune " , " Papillon " , " Marie Graty " , " Marie Victorine " , " Cannoniere " , and " Printemis " . Peace - time service . In 1815 " Havannah " sailed for North America and in 1816 to the Cape of Good Hope . By 1819 " Havannah " was laid up at Sheerness . She underwent repairs between April 1819 and October 1822 . From November 1821 she was again in commission and then was based in the Mediterranean . In 1830 she was in Sheerness . In 1845 she was cut down to a 24 - gun sixth rate corvette carrying 32 - pounder ( 40cwt ) guns . In February 1848 Captain J . E . Erskine took command . She then served on the New Zealand station between 1848 and 1851 . She returned to Britain via Rio de Janeiro . She arrived at Devonport from Portsmouth on 7 December 1851 . While approaching Britain , on 2 December she rendered assistance to the French ship " Celine " . Almost two years later her crew received an award of money for their services . Captain T . Harvey took command in August 1855 . Fate . In 1860 " Havannah " was sent to Cardiff to serve as a " ragged school ship " . She was sold for breaking up in 1905 .