HMS Leveret (1806)

HMS Leveret was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by John King at Dover and launched in 1806. She was commissioned under Commander George Salt. She sailed for the Mediterranean in April 1807 and was off Cadiz in July. Later she sailed to the Baltic. On 21 October she recaptured the brig Beaver, of Yarmouth.

Later that month Commander Richard James Laurence O’Connor took command. She was under his command when she wrecked on the Galloper Rock near Great Yarmouth during a gale on 10 November. She had been ordered to see Waldemaar, a captured Danish ship-of-the-line, safely into port. No lives were lost as a fishing smack, the Samuel, came up and Leveret's crew used her boats to transfer to the smack.

The court martial held on board Magnanime in Sheerness Harbour on 18 November 1807 ruled that O'Connor, his officers and his crew had made every exertion to save their ship once she had struck. Rear Admiral Wells, Commander-in-Chief Sheerness, then charged that O'Connor had not helped a frigate “on her beam ends” on the Long Sand on 10 November. The court ruled that O'Connor was blameless and that the charge was not proven. O'Connor’s next command was the 18-gun brig Ned Elven.