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'''''Anacreon''''' was launched in 1800 at Sunderland. She initially sailed between London and Minorca and then between 1804 and 1805 she served as an armed defense ship for the [[Royal Navy]]. She next became a London-based transport, and eventually traded from Liverpool to the Baltic and Canada. She was wrecked in 1823.

==Career==
''Anacreon'' entered ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' in 1800 with Massingale, master, Davidson, owner, and trade London–Minorca.<ref name=LR1800>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522479?urlappend=%3Bseq=43 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1800), "A" supple.  pages.]</ref> This information continued unchanged until 1805 in the ''Register of Shipping'' and 1806 in ''Lloyd's Register''. However, the information in the registers was only as accurate as owners chose to keep it and both registers often carried stale data for some years. For ''Anacreon'', the data was incorrect from late 1803 to late 1805.

Following the resumption of [[Napoleonic Wars|war with France]] in early 1803, concern developed in Britain about [[Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom]]. The British government's response took many forms including the reactivation of [[Fencible]] regiments and the [[Sea Fencibles]], a program of the construction of [[Martello Towers]] along the coasts of Britain and Ireland, and the commissioning of a number of armed defense ships.

The British [[East India Company]] in November voted to underwrite 10,000 tons (bm) of armed transports to protect Great Britain's coasts. The vessels were existing, but not EIC, merchantmen that would receive an upgrade in armament and in some cases a naval officer as captain. The vessels were: ''Albion'', ''Anacreon'', {{ship||Atlas|1801 ship|2}}, ''Aurora'', {{ship||Chapman|1777 ship|2}}, {{ship||Diadem|1800 ship|2}}, {{ship||Duckenfield|1792 ship|2}}, ''Helder'', {{ship||Indefatigable|1799 ship|2}}, {{ship||Lord Forbes|1803 ship|2}}, ''Lord Nelson'', {{ship||Norfolk|1800 ship|2}}, {{ship||Paragon|1800 Whitby ship|2}}, {{ship||Perseus|1799 ship|2}}, {{ship||Robert|1800 ship|2}}, ''Sir Alexander Mitchell'', {{ship||Suffolk|1795 ship|2}}, and ''Triton''.<ref name=pbenyon1/>

On 21 November 1803 ''Anacreon'', of 443 tons (bm) and 16 guns, was ready but yet to be allocated to her station.<ref name=pbenyon1>[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/A/00245a.html ''Naval Database''.]</ref> On 28 December at Deal a boat from ''Anacreon'' capsized will coming to shore; two men drowned and a third died later.<ref>"Ship News". ''Morning Post'' (London, England), 31 December 1804; Issue 11307.</ref>

In August 1804 she was at Sheerness undergoing fitting.{{sfn|Winfield|2008|p=272}} Commander James John Charles Agassiz was appointed to her circa 6 September 1804.<ref name=OByrne>{{harvnb|O'Byrne|1849|p=6}}</ref> He commissioned her and by later that month she was on the Leith Station.{{sfn|Winfield|2008|p=272}}

On 31 December 1805 the armed ships ''Helder'', ''Anacreon'', ''Triton'', and ''Paragon'' were at Portsmouth, having come down from [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|The Downs]].<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735022?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Lloyd's List'' №4179.]</ref>

The Royal Navy returned the armed defense ships to their owners in the second half of 1805. ''Anacreon'' was deleted from the lists in July 1805.{{sfn|Winfield|2008|p=272}} Commander Agassiz moved to take command on 22 January 1806 of {{HMS|Rattler|1795|6}}.<ref name=OByrne/>

The 1806 volume of the ''Register of Shipping'' showed ''Anacreon''{{'}}s master as W. Young, her owner as Davison, and her trade as London transport.<ref name=RS1806>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233542?urlappend=%3Bseq=44 ''Register of Shipping'' (1806), Seq.№A599.]</ref>

Next, ''Anacreon'' was one of the transport vessels that were part of the expedition under General Sir [[Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet|David Baird]] and Admiral Sir [[Home Riggs Popham]] that would in 1806 capture the [[Dutch Cape Colony]].

{{see also|Transport vessels for the British invasion of the Dutch Cape Colony (1805-1806)}}

On 21 March 1806 she sailed with 16 other transports in a convoy to Great Britain with invalids and Dutch prisoners. The newly-captured and commissioned [[French frigate Volontaire (1796)|HMS ''Volontaire'']] provided their escort.

The information in the table below comes from either ''Lloyd's Register'' (LR) or the ''Register of Shipping'' (RS).
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| 1810
| W. Young
| Davison & Co.
| London transport
| RS; Good repair in 1809
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| 1815
| W. Young
| Davison & Co.
| London transport
| RS; Good repair in 1809
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| 1820
| W. Rodgers
| Nicholson
| [[Liverpool]]–[[Riga]]<br>Liverpool–[[New Brunswick]]
| LR; Good repair 1817
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| 1824
| T. Blackett
| Captain
| Liverpool to [[Miramichi, New Brunswick]]
| LR; Damages repaired 1823<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005686582?urlappend=%3Bseq=41 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1824), Seq.№A700.]</ref>
|-
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==Loss==
''Anacreon'' was lost on 9 October 1823 in the [[Magdalen Islands]] while on a voyage from Liverpool to Miramichi. Her crew were rescued.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044105226310?urlappend=%3Bseq=390 ''Lloyd's List'' №5860.]</ref>

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Agassiz, James John Charles |page=6}}
* {{cite book |last=Winfield |first=Rif |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=978-1861762467}}

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