HMS Hazard (1749)

[1] On 5 March 1753 Commander Hanbury was accused of several 'Iregularites' and was dismissed, not to be employed until enquired at by court martial.

When hostilities with France increased in 1755, Hazard was among the vessels ordered to Brest to look for the French grand fleet under Admiral Macnamara.

He was able to transmit the valuable information to Lord Anson, who promoted Graves to post captain on 8 July 1755.

Subtile was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 86 men under the command of Jean Baptiste Tate.

Fourteen managed to tunnel out, but one man got stuck and his cries for help alerted the guards who succeeded in recapturing four men.

On 7 August he sent in his boats and capture the French privateer Duc d'Ayen while she was at anchor off Egersund, Norway.

[10] Her capture was alleged to have been in violation of Denmark's neutrality, and Goodall became involved in a lengthy correspondence on the subject.

[11] Goodall commanded Hazard in the convoy that brought Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to England in August 1761 for her wedding to King George III.

She was four days out of Dunkirk and had captured the sloop Robert, of Ipswich, John Hunt, master.

[12] Hazard shared the head money for the destruction of Savage with the sloop HMS Nautilus and the armed cutters Lyon and Lurcher.

[1] On 25 June King George directed that the commanders of Hazard, Speedwell, and Wasp be promoted to captain.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the sloop Hazard, of 140 tons, for sale on 11 February 1783 at Sheerness.

The entry noted that she was the former HMS Hazard, sloop of war, and that in 1783 she had been raised and had undergone a thorough repair.

However, Lloyd's Register for 1794 (published in 1793), showed her with W. Page, master, J. Dowson, owner, and port of Bristol.

[17] 4th whaling voyage (1797–1798): Captain Magnus Smith sailed in 1797, bound for South Georgia.

Earlier, she had also recaptured some other French prizes, including Joseph and Young William, another returning whaler.

[19] Lloyd's List reported on 19 August 1800 that Joseph, Humphries, master, had come into Plymouth after her recapture by Fisgard.