HMS Cerf (1803)

HMS Cerf was a 14-gun French Navy brig that the Royal Navy acquired at the surrender of Santo Domingo on 30 November 1803. At the time of her surrender she was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Drouault.

The Royal Navy commissioned her under the command of Commander George Barne Trollope. Cerf was Trollope's first command, and he was promoted to Commander on 1 May 1804 to her. However, he was invalided home in December 1804 due to an atack of yellow fever.

She was sold in August 1806. The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the "Musette and Cerf sloops" for sale on 27 August 1806 at Plymouth.

Cerf had a complex history of ownership. She was built at Havana in 1794-95 as the Spanish Navy's Ciervo. The British acquired her and named her Stag. On 15 December 1801 the Captain-General of Guadeloupe purchased her and named her Cerf. Between end-December 1801 and end-February 1802 she was at Dominica and under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Drouault.
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 * Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015 Forthcoming) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
 * Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015 Forthcoming) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042