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42-498: William Mounsey may refer to: William Mounsey (Royal Navy officer) (1766–1830), British officer of the Royal Navy William Mounsey (bishop) (1867–1952), Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, 1909–1916 William H. Mounsey (1808–1877), British soldier and antiquarian [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with

84-570: A master and commander rather than a post captain , although in day-to-day use at sea the commanding officer of any naval vessels would be addressed as "captain". A ship sloop was generally the equivalent of the smaller corvette of the French Navy (although the French term also covered ships up to 24 guns, which were classed as post ships within the sixth rate of the British Navy). The name corvette

126-409: A convoy bound for Quebec . Whilst travelling with the convoy on 2 July, a suspicious sail was sighted astern, and Mounsey dropped back to investigate. In doing so he lost sight of the convoy and in sailing to rejoin them, came across a French frigate on 5 July, which was in the process of capturing an English merchant. Despite the much larger size of the frigate, Mounsey immediately gave chase, at which

168-441: A dangerous attempt to cut-out a vessel laden with gunpowder, lying the harbour. Mounsey was successful, and the loss of the ship accelerate the fall of the city. He returned to Britain aboard HMS  Imperieuse , and was afterwards appointed to HMS  Trident , HMS  Impregnable , HMS Duke , HMS  Defiance and HMS  Clyde in succession. On 6 July 1801 he led the boats from Clyde and her escorts to destroy

210-480: A detachment of troops from the 60th regiment of the line. She had suffered heavy damage, with her masts shot away, five feet of water in the hold and 35 killed and 37 wounded. In contrast, Bonne Citoyenne had just one man killed and five wounded. The frigate was patched up and towed into Halifax , where both were repaired. The captured frigate was later commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS  Furieuse , whilst

252-416: A foremast and a main mast immediately abaft which a small subsidiary mast was fastened on which the spanker was set. The first three-masted, i.e., " ship rigged ", sloops appeared during the 1740s, and from the mid-1750s most new sloops were built with a three-masted (ship) rig. The third mast afforded the sloop greater mobility and the ability to back sail. In the 1770s, the two-masted sloop re-appeared in

294-473: A nearby castle and continued to fire on the British forces. Nevertheless, the British were able to sink the gunboats, and bring out 16 of the merchant ships. The Furieuse kept up a steady fire, preventing reinforcements from Civitavecchia from intervening. Two of the British party were killed and 10 wounded in the operation. For the rest of 1813 Furieuse formed part of Admiral Sir Josias Rowley 's squadron, and

336-513: A new guise as the brig sloop , the successor to the former snow sloops. Brig sloops had two masts, while ship sloops continued to have three (since a brig is a two-masted, square-rigged vessel, and a ship is a square-rigger with three or more masts, though never more than three in that period). In the Napoleonic period, Britain built huge numbers of brig sloops of the Cruizer class (18 guns) and

378-464: A number of enemy merchants, as well as a 22-gun privateer . He left the Rosario in autumn 1808, and on 18 April 1809, he was appointed to the 20-gun HMS  Bonne Citoyenne . He was sent with despatches for Earl St Vincent then at Lisbon . He returned to England after completing this, and on 18 June sailed from Spithead in company with HMS  Inflexible . The two were acting as escorts for

420-413: A ship bearing such an appearance of a commanding superiority of force, and the skill, courage, and perseverance manifested by you, and the officers, seamen, and marines under your command, during an action of such long continuance, and so warmly contested, have received his Majesty's fullest approbation... A round of promotions followed the victory, the first lieutenant was promoted to commander and Mounsey

462-510: A way that would today be called a gaff cutter (but usually without the square topsails then carried by cutter-rigged vessels), though some sloops of that type did serve in the 18th century British Royal Navy , particularly on the Great Lakes of North America. In the first half of the 18th century, most naval sloops were two-masted vessels, usually carrying a ketch or a snow rig. A ketch had main and mizzen masts but no foremast. A snow had

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504-551: The Cherokee class (10 guns). The brig rig was economical of manpower – important given Britain's chronic shortfall in trained seamen relative to the demands of the wartime fleet. When armed with carronades (32-pounders in the Cruizer class, 18-pounders in the Cherokee class), they had the highest ratio of firepower to tonnage of any ships in the Royal Navy, albeit within the short range of

546-616: The Grimsby and Kingfisher classes, were built in the interwar years. Fleet minesweepers such as the Algerine class were rated as "minesweeping sloops". The Royal Navy officially dropped the term "sloop" in 1937, although the term remained in widespread and general use. During World War II , 37 ships of the Black Swan class were built for convoy escort duties. However, the warship-standards construction, propulsion and sophisticated armaments of

588-672: The Bonne Citoyenne returned to England in September. The capture of the Furieuse was hailed as a great victory. Henry Phipps , First Lord of the Admiralty wrote to Mounsey Sir, - I did not fail this day, to lay before his Majesty the particulars of your conduct in the attack and capture of the Furieuse, French frigate, on 6 July. The enterprising gallantry with which you approached and attack

630-855: The Cumberland sailed to the East Indies on 6 February 1782, joining the squadron there under Sir Richard Bickerton . They were in time to see action at the Battle of Cuddalore , between Sir Edward Hughes and the Bailli de Suffren . Cumberland had two killed and 11 wounded in the battle, fought on 20 June 1783. Mounsey returned to England in May 1784, becoming midshipman aboard the sloop HMS  Orestes . He passed his lieutenant's examination on 3 December 1788, and went on to serve aboard HMS  Arethusa , HMS  Victory , HMS  Duke and HMS  Juno . With

672-522: The Hunt class of "minesweeping sloops", those intended for minesweeping duty. The Royal Navy continued to build vessels rated as sloops during the interwar years. These sloops were small warships intended for colonial " gunboat diplomacy " deployments, surveying duties, and acting during wartime as convoy escorts. As they were not intended to deploy with the fleet, sloops had a maximum speed of less than 20 knots (37 km/h). A number of such sloops, for example

714-661: The War of the Sixth Coalition in 1814 led to Furieuse transferring to the Caribbean, where she escorted transports. She conveyed the 62nd regiment to Halifax , and with the end of the War of 1812 , remained in the area to support the troops. HMS Furieuse was paid off in autumn 1815 and was sold for breaking up in October 1816 at Deptford . Mounsey was nominated a Companion of the Order of

756-674: The Bath in June 1815, and also received the Naval Gold Medal for the capture of the Furieuse . With the end of the wars with France he retired from active service, and died on 25 September 1830 at the age of 64. Sloop-of-war In World War I and World War II , the Royal Navy reused the term "sloop" for specialised convoy -defence vessels, including the Flower class of the First World War and

798-484: The French Conception , towing her out to sea under heavy fire. One man was killed and another five wounded in this operation. On 4 October a convoy was sighted off Civitavecchia . Despite being heavily protected by two gunboats and a number of shore batteries, an operation was attempted. Marines from Furieuse 's boats stormed and captured a fort, under cover from Furieuse 's guns. The enemy retreated to

840-572: The French ship fled northwards. After a chase lasting 18 hours the Bonne Citoyenne caught up with the French ship on the morning of 6 July and brought her to battle. The subsequent engagement lasted seven hours, with Bonne Citoyenne at a disadvantage early on, when three of her guns were dismounted. She nevertheless fired 129 broadsides to the enemy's 70. By the end of the battle Bonne Citoyenne had lost her top masts, her lower masts were badly damaged, and her rigging, sails and boats had been shot to pieces. Running out of powder Mounsey decided to force

882-459: The Western Atlantic, priority being given to the continuing wars with France for control of Europe). The longer decks of the multi-masted vessels also had the advantage of allowing more guns to be carried. Originally a sloop-of-war was smaller than a sailing frigate and was (by virtue of having too few guns) outside the rating system . In general, a sloop-of-war would be under the command of

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924-431: The beached wreck of HMS  Jason , coming under heavy fire as they did so. Mounsey remained aboard HMS Clyde until being promoted to commander on 29 April 1802. He was appointed on 17 May 1802 to command of the sloop Rosario . During his time aboard her he was tasked with carrying despatches, reconnoitering enemy positions, escorting convoys, and conducting anti-smuggling patrols. Also during this period he captured

966-529: The carronade. The carronades also used much less manpower than the long guns normally used to arm frigates. Consequently, the Cruizer class were often used as cheaper and more economical substitutes for frigates , in situations where the frigates' high cruising endurance was not essential. A carronade-armed brig, however, would be at the mercy of a frigate armed with long guns, so long as the frigate maneuvered to exploit its superiority of range. The other limitation of brig sloops as opposed to post ships and frigates

1008-530: The classifications of sloops, corvettes and frigates. Instead a classification based on the intended role of the ship became common, such as cruiser and battleship . During the First World War , the sloop rating was revived by the British Royal Navy for small warships not intended for fleet deployments. Examples include the Flower classes of "convoy sloops", those designed for convoy escort, and

1050-468: The equivalent of British post-ships. The Americans also occasionally used the French term corvette. In the Royal Navy , the sloop evolved into an unrated vessel with a single gun deck and three masts, two square rigged and the aft-most fore-and-aft rigged (corvettes had three masts, all of which were square-rigged). Steam sloops had a transverse division of their lateral coal bunkers in order that

1092-481: The fleets. Bermuda sloops were found with gaff rig, mixtures of gaff and square rig, or a Bermuda rig . They were built with up to three masts. The single masted ships had huge sails and harnessed tremendous wind energy, which made them demanding to sail and required large, experienced crews. The Royal Navy favoured multi-masted versions, as it was perennially short of sailors at the end of the 18th century, and its personnel received insufficient training (particularly in

1134-542: The highly successful Black Swan class of the Second World War, with anti-aircraft and anti-submarine capabilities. They performed similar duties to the destroyer escorts of the United States Navy , and also performed similar duties to the smaller corvettes of the Royal Navy. A sloop-of-war was quite different from a civilian or mercantile sloop , which was a general term for a single-masted vessel rigged in

1176-445: The issue and ordered his men to be prepared to board the French ship. Before he could do so, the French surrendered and Mounsey took possession. The enemy ship was discovered to be the Furieuse , which had sailed from the Îles des Saintes on 1 April, carrying sugar and coffee to France. She was capable of carrying 48 guns, but was only carrying 20 at the time. Despite this she had a much larger crew, with 200 sailors, 40 soldiers, and

1218-447: The line and seven frigates, of which one ship of the line and two frigates began to chase the British inshore squadron, consisting of the Furieuse , and the frigates HMS  Menelaus and HMS  Havannah , and the brig HMS  Pelorus . The French gave up the chase when the British made clear their intention to fight. On 9 November 1812 Mounsey captured the French privateer Nebrophonus , and on 10 January 1813 captured

1260-622: The lower division could be emptied first, to maintain a level of protection afforded by the coal in the upper bunker division along the waterline. During the War of 1812 sloops of war in the service of the United States Navy performed well against their Royal Navy equivalents. The American ships had the advantage of being ship-rigged rather than brig-rigged, a distinction that increased their manoeuvrability. They were also larger and better armed. Cruizer- class brig-sloops in particular were vulnerable in one-on-one engagements with American sloops-of-war. In

1302-484: The outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars , Mounsey returned to HMS Victory , then under Admiral Lord Hood . He was promoted to lieutenant on 22 May 1793, and appointed to HMS  Ardent , under Robert Manners-Sutton, and then to the frigate HMS  Lowestoffe . He was present at the occupation of Toulon , and at numerous assaults during the capture of Corsica . Whilst blockading Bastia , he led

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1344-466: The privateer Argus . In February 1813 Mounsey supported Charles John Napier in HMS ; Thames in the capture of the island of Ponza . They landed troops on 26 February, under fire from shore batteries, which soon subdued resistance. The capture of the harbour eliminated an infamous corsair haven, and provided an anchorage for Royal Navy ships watching Naples . On 7 May boats from Furieuse captured

1386-538: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Mounsey&oldid=642839894 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Mounsey (Royal Navy officer) William Mounsey CB (1766 – 25 September 1830)

1428-409: The second half of the 19th century, successive generations of naval guns became larger and with the advent of steam-powered sloops , both paddle and screw, by the 1880s even the most powerful warships had fewer than a dozen large calibre guns, and were therefore technically sloops. Since the rating system was no longer a reliable indicator of a ship's combat power, it was abolished altogether and with it

1470-682: The ship was so badly damaged by a gale whilst crossing the Atlantic, that she was paid off on her arrival for large-scale repairs. Dent and Mounsey transferred again, this time to HMS  Repulse , initially under Vice-Admiral George Darby , but later being detached to land stores at Gibraltar in April 1781. Dent and Mounsey were transferred again at the end of the year, this time to the third rate HMS  Cumberland . Dent retired about this time due to ill-health, with Captain William Allen. Mounsey and

1512-414: The sloop of that time shared bottlenecks with destroyers and did not lend themselves to mass production on commercial shipyards, thus the sloop was supplanted by the corvette , and later the frigate , as the primary escort vessel of the Royal Navy. Built to mercantile standards and with (initially) simple armaments, these vessels, notably the Flower and River classes, were produced in large numbers for

1554-691: Was a British officer of the Royal Navy . He served during the American Revolutionary , the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars , rising to the rank of Captain . Mounsey was born in 1766, as the fifth son of George Mounsey, of Carlisle . He joined the navy on 23 February 1780, at the age of 13, becoming a midshipman aboard HMS  Royal Oak , under Captain Sir Digby Dent , who would become Mounsey's patron. The Royal Oak

1596-467: Was present at the capture of Via Reggio, and the unsuccessful assault on Livorno in December. In early March 1814, still with Rowley, Furieuse assisted in the occupation of La Spezia and the surrounding areas. On 17 April a squadron consisting of Furieuse , HMS  Aboukir , HMS  Iphigenia , HMS  Swallow and HMS  Cephalus supported the successful assault on Genoa . The end of

1638-528: Was promoted to post captain. He was offered command of the Furieuse , once she had been repaired, which he accepted, taking command on her commissioning in November 1811. Mounsey and the Furieuse were initially employed in escorting a convoy to the Mediterranean, after which she joined the fleet blockading Toulon under Admiral Edward Pellew . The French fleet sailed out in May 1812, consisting of 12 sail of

1680-523: Was sent to the North American Station in May to reinforce Vice-admiral Mariot Arbuthnot 's fleet. During the voyage Mounsey took part in the capture of a French East Indiaman . They reached their destination on 13 July, after which Arbuthnot raised his flag aboard the Royal Oak , whilst Dent and Mounsey moved aboard HMS  Raisonnable . The Raisonnable then returned home with despatches, but

1722-413: Was subsequently also applied to British vessels, but not until the 1830s. American usage, while similar to British terminology into the beginning of the 19th century, gradually diverged. By about 1825 the United States Navy used "sloop-of-war" to designate a flush-deck ship-rigged warship with all armament on the gun deck; these could be rated as high as 26 guns and thus overlapped "third-class frigates,"

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1764-558: Was their relatively restricted stowage for water and provisions, which made them less suitable for long-range cruising. However, their shallower draught made them excellent raiders against coastal shipping and shore installations. The Royal Navy also made extensive use of the Bermuda sloop , both as a cruiser against French privateers , slavers, and smugglers, and also as its standard advice vessels, carrying communications, vital persons and materials, and performing reconnaissance duties for

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