HMS Vengeur was a 74-gun third rate  of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, launched on 19 June 1810 at Harwich

Harwich

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. She had an uneventful career, having participated in no battles or engagements.

Service

On 30 August 1810, Captain Thomas Brown took command of Vengeur, the flagship of Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke. Brown escorted to Portugal a large body of troops sent as reinforcements to the Duke of wellington's army there. Vengeur then cruised
the Western Isles to protect an inbound fleet of East Indiamen.

Brown's replacement in November 1811 was Captain James Brisbane.

Tristam Rickets (or Ricketts) took command of Vengeur in October 1813. In May 1814 the 9th Regiment of Foot

9th Regiment of Foot

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 marched from Bayonne to Bordeaux and embarked on York

HMS York (1807)

HMS York was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe by the contract firm Samuel & Daniel Brent, and launched on 7 July 1807. She saw service during the Napoleonic Wars, though is best known for her time spent as a prison ship...

 and Vengeur to sail to Quebec

Quebec

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 in Canada to lend support to the British Army in the fight against the Americans during the War of 1812

War of 1812

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.

Rickets was the commander of the British naval forces at the Second Battle of Fort Bowyer, the British attack on the American fort at Mobile Point

Mobile Point

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 in 1815. Although the British were successful, the attack was useless as the Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Ghent

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, ending the War of 1812

War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...

, had been signed on Christmas Eve, 1814.

Captain Thomas Alexander took command in August 1815. Vengeur served as a guardship at Portsmouth from June 1816 to May 1818. From October to December she was fitted out for sea.

Frederick Lewis Maitland took command of Vengeur in October 1818, and in 1819 sailed her to South America. He took Lord George Beresford

Lord George Beresford

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 from Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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 to Lisbon

Lisbon

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 in 1820, and then returned to the Mediterranean. He then carried Ferdinand I

Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

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, King of the Two Sicilies from Naples

Naples

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 to Livorno

Livorno

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, on his way to attend the Congress of Laibach

Congress of Laibach

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 (modern Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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). The passage was rough and lasted seven days, but they arrived safely on 20 December. After His Majesty landed, he personally invested Maitland with the insignia of a knight-commander of the order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, and gave him a gold box with the king's portrait set in diamonds. Maitland and Vengeur then returned to England, arriving at Spithead on 29 March 1821. Vengeur was found to be defective and was paid off on 18 May 1821 at Sheerness.

Fate

She was fitted as a receiving ship between July and February 1824. She then went to Shearness where she served as a receiving ship until 1838. She was broken up in 1843.