HMS Cherub was an 18-gun Royal Navy sloop-of-war built in Dover in 1806. Cherub was stationed in the West Indies and took part in the capture of Guadeloupe in 1810 and remained on the Leeward Islands station until 1812. That year she returned to England with a convoy for a refit. In December 1812, she sailed for the Pacific Ocean. In 1813, she joined with HMS Phoebe and HMS Racoon and in company they sailed to the Galapagos Islands. Then Racoon was detached to attack American fur traders on the Columbia River while Phoebe and Cherub searched for the American frigate, USS Essex which had been attacking the British whaling fleet in the Pacific. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... USS Constellation, a United States Navy sloop-of-war. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles. ... HMS Phoebe was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy. ... NASA Satellite photo of the Galápagos archipelago. ... Columbia River Gorge, Washington or North side The Columbia River (French: fleuve Columbia) is a river situated in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. ... For the bird, see Frigatebird. ... The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France and in the War of 1812, wherein she was captured by the British (1814). ... The term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, to just the larger ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea. ...

On February 8 1814, the Phoebe and Cherub found the Essex at Valparaiso. They waited off the port for Essex to come out. On the afternoon of March 28, the Essex sailed but she lost her main topmast and anchored near the shore. Pheobe and Cherub also anchored and opened fire. The British were armed with long cannons which were more effective at a longer range than the American armament of carronades. As the British anchored out of effective range of the American carronades, the battle was very one-sided and lasted for an hour until the American captain struck his colours with 23 dead and 42 wounded on board. On the British ships only five were killed. Valparaiso is the name of at least three cities and a village: Valparaíso, Chile Valparaiso, Florida Valparaiso, Indiana Valparaiso, Nebraska This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A long gun is a firearm with an extended barrel, usually designed to be fired braced against the shoulder. ... The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, similar to a mortar, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland. ... Striking the colors was and is the universally recognized indication of surrender. ...

Cherub was eventually sold out of the service in 1820.