HMS Erebus (1807)

HMS Erebus (1807)

Upper Deck:16 x 24-pounder carronades
QD:6 x 18-pounder carronades
Fc:2 x 18-pounder carronades + 2 x 9-pounder guns

Lower Deck: 32-pound Congreve Rockets For other ships of the same name, see HMS Erebus.

HMS Erebus was originally built as a Royal Navy fireship, but served as a sloop and was re-rated as such in March 1808. She served in the Baltic during the Gunboat and Anglo-Russian Wars, where in 1809 she was briefly converted to a fireship, and then served in the War of 1812. In 1814 she was converted to a rocket vessel to fire Congreve rockets. While serving off America, Erebus participated in the sack of Alexandria, Virginia, and launched the rockets that bombarded Fort McHenry in Baltimore on September 13th, 1814.. In March 1815, off Georgia, she fired the second-to-the-last-shot of the war. She was laid up in 1816 and sold for breaking up in 1819.