HMS ''Tickler'' was launched in 1794 as a ''Conquest''-class
gunbrig. She was sold in 1802.
Career
Lieutenant James Gomm commissioned ''Teazer'' in February 1795. She then joined Sir
Sidney Smith's squadron. In July Lieutenant Gomm, Lieutenant Titus Allardyce of and Lieutenant Henry Hicks of faced mutinous conduct by seamen at the
ÃŽles Saint-Marcouf
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. This escalated into a situation that involved counter-charges and the confinement of Hicks, Allardyce, and Gomm. Smith was dissatisfied with the officers' conduct but would later write that he had treated the officers with great leniency.
Lieutenant John Johnson recommissioned ''Tickler'' in August 1797.
Lieutenant Thomas Williams commanded ''Tickler'' from August 1797.
Between March and June 1798 ''Tickler'' was at Portsmouth undergoing coppering and conversion to a brig.
On 7 August 1799 ''Carolina'' capsized in the
English Channel
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off
Poole, Dorset
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. ''Tickler'', under the command of Lieutenant Williams, rescued her crew. ''Carolina'' was on a voyage from
Ystad
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, Sweden to
Dublin
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. She was later taken in to Portsmouth.
''Tickler'' sailed with the fleet that would
attack Copenhagen in 1801. However, she does not appear in the listing of vessels whose crews qualified for the clasp "Copenhagen 1801) to the
Naval General Service Medal (1847)
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. The fleet assembled in the Kattegat in March 1801 but on 22 March a storm came up that dispersed some of the vessels. The gun-brig was driven under the guns of
Varberg Fortress
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History
Varberg Fortress was built in 1287-1300 by Count Jacob Nielsen as protection against Eric VI of Denmark, who had decl ...
where the Swedes captured her; they restored her to the British in May 1801. had towed ''Tickler'' on 13 March and the weather caused ''Russell'' to ground; she was gotten off by the exertions of her crew.
Fate
The "Principal Officers and Commissioners and of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Tickler, Gun-Vessel, 150 Tons, Copper-bottomed, lying at Portsmouth", for sale on 12 May 1802.
She sold there on that day.
Note
Citations
References
* Barrow, John (1848) ''The life and correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith''. (Bentley).
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* Gomm, James (1801) ''Narrative founded on a series of events which took place in the island of St. Marcou''. (London: printed by Lewis & Co.).
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1794 ships
Gunvessels of the Royal Navy
Maritime incidents in 1799