HMS Electra was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class launched on 23 January 1806.

[1] On 17 February 1808, Major General John Coape Sherbrooke ordered the evacuation of the British troops at the castle of Scylla (Scilla, Calabria.

The subsequent court martial faulted Trollope for having tried to enter an unfamiliar port without calling for a pilot and for failing to use a lead.

The court martial also reprimanded Lieutenant Richard Connelly for having left the deck while Electra was on the reef.

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