Replica of HMS Pickle at Portsmouth
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Pickle
Acquired:	Purchased January 1801 as Sting
Renamed:	Pickle, 1802
Honours and awards:	Participated in: Battle of Trafalgar
Fate:	Sunk after running aground near Cádiz, 1808
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bermuda sloop
Tons burthen:	127 long tons (129 MT)
Length:	73 feet (22 m)
Beam:	20 feet 7.25 inches (6.280 m)
Depth of hold:	9 feet 6 inches (2.9 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Bermuda rig
Complement:	40
Armament:	6 x 12 pdr carronades

HMS Pickle was a 10-gun Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, one of several vessels seized when the Dutch island of Curaçao was surrendered to Captain William Frederick Watkins of HMS Néréide in 1800, and was purchased by Lord Hugh Seymour in January 1801 as an armed tender and renamed Pickle in 1802. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Combatants United Kingdom First French Empire Kingdom of Spain Commanders Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson † Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve Strength 27 ships of the line and 6 others. ... Location Location of Cádiz Coordinates : Time Zone : General information Native name Cádiz (Spanish) Spanish name Cádiz Postal code – Website http://www. ... 1831 painting of a three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, entering a West Indies port. ... In sailing, a bermuda rig is: A rig of mainsail or course that consists of a triangular sail set aft of the mast, with its head raised to the top of the mast, its luff running down the mast and normally attached to it for all its length, its tack... 24-pounder carronade (140 mm) 68-pounder British naval carronade The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK used from the 1770s to the 1860s. ... The Royal Navy schooner HMS Pickle, of 4 guns, was the smallest ship present at the Battle of Trafalgar, commanded by Lt. ... 1831 painting of a three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, entering a West Indies port. ... This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Curaçao (disambiguation). ... A516 Donau, an Elbe class tender of the German Navy. ...

Service

In 1803 Pickle was attached to Admiral William Cornwallis' Inshore Squadron, where she was used to recconoitre enemy harbours during the blockade of Brest, Rochefort, and Lorient. On March 25 1804 Pickle went to the assistance of HMS Magnificent, which had run on to a shoal off Brest, and assisted in the rescue of her crew. This article needs to be wikified. ... A blockade is any effort to prevent supplies, troops, information or aid from reaching an opposing force. ... Brest is the name of several cities: City in Belarus: Brest, Belarus, formerly in Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly known as Brest-Litovsk. ... Rochefort is the name of several communes in France, of a municipality in Belgium and a commune in Switzerland: Rochefort in the Charente-Maritime département of France Rochefort in the Côte-dOr département of France Rochefort in the Savoie département of France Rochefort, Belgium Rochefort, Switzerland It is also... This article is about The place Lorient in France. ... is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

On October 9 1805, commanded by Lieutenant John Richards Lapenotiere, Pickle was sent with HMS Weazle to assist Captain Henry Blackwood in watching the coast off Cádiz, and to provide reconnaissance services for the fleet. Pickle managed to sail close enough to the coast to provide an exact count of the enemy warships in Cadiz harbour. is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Location Location of Cádiz Coordinates : Time Zone : General information Native name Cádiz (Spanish) Spanish name Cádiz Postal code – Website http://www. ...

Battle of Trafalgar

During the Battle of Trafalgar, Pickle and the other small vessels were kept well back from the fighting, since a single broadside from a ship of the line would have sunk her instantly. Pickle herself was stationed to the north-west of the weather line, where Nelson was leading HMS Victory into battle. In the later stages of the battle, Pickle and three other vessels went to the rescue of the crew of the French ship, Achille, which caught fire and subsequently exploded. Combatants United Kingdom First French Empire Kingdom of Spain Commanders Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson † Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve Strength 27 ships of the line and 6 others. ... USS Iowa Broadside (1984) A broadside is the side of a ship; the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their simultaneous (or near simultaneous) fire in naval warfare. ... Ships of the line were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ... Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, a decisive British victory in the war, during which he lost his life. ... For other ships of the same name, see HMS Victory (disambiguation). ... The Achille was a 74-gun French ship of the line built at Rochefort in 1803 by Jacques-Noël Sané. She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar, where she exploded. ...

Pickle was the first ship to bring the news of Nelson's victory to Great Britain, arriving at Falmouth on November 4, 1805, having been chosen to carry the dispatches of Vice Admiral Collingwood who had assumed command after the death of Nelson. After arriving in Falmouth Lapenotiere took a coach to London to deliver the dispatches to the Admiralty, receiving a promotion to Commander for his service. Lord Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. ... Falmouth (Cornish: Aberfal) is a seaport on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK. It is both a town and a civil parish. ... is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Jefferson. ... Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1750 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Horatio Nelson in several of the great victories of the Napoleonic Wars. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Commander is a military rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. ...

To this day the Royal Navy's petty officers have an annual Pickle Night dinner, as do many private clubs in the Commonwealth of Nations. The historic and epic 1805 voyage and journey were commemorated in 2005, the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, by the New Trafalgar Dispatch and the Trafalgar Way. A Petty Officer is a noncommissioned officer or equivalent in many navies. ... The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2008. ... The New Trafalgar Dispatch was part of the bicentenary celebrations of Lord Nelsons famous and momentous victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, in 1805. ... The Trafalgar Way is the name given to the historic route taken in November 1805 by Lieutenant Lapenotiere, from Falmouth to London, with the momentous news of Lord Nelsons victory and death in the Battle of Trafalgar, in October 1805. ...

Pickle struck a shoal at Cádiz and was lost in 1808.

References

• David Howarth, Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch (Atheneum, 1969).
• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 

James J. Colledge was a noted naval historian, author of Ships of the Royal Navy, the standard work on the fighting ships of the British Royal Navy from the 15th century to the 20th century. ... Ships of the Royal Navy by J. J. Colledge is a historical reference work providing brief entries on all recorded ships in commission in the Royal Navy from the 15th century, giving location of constructions, date of launch, tonnage, specification and fate. ... The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) was founded in 1967 and originally named the Ohio College Library Center. ...

External links

• HMS 'Pickle' replica