title: HMS Anacreon (1813)
text: # HMS Anacreon (1813)
  
  HMS Anacreon had an extremely brief career. She was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year.
  
  ## Career
  
  Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned her in May 1813, but she had apparently already been in service by then. On 9 April 1813 Eleanor Wilhelmina arrived at Yarmouth, Anacreon having detained her as she was sailing from North Bergen. Davies then sailed Anacreon for Lisbon on 3 August.
  
  On 1 February 1814 she recaptured the Spanish ship Nostra Senora del Carmen la Sirena. Late in January the French privateer Lion had captured three ships in all and plundered two, which she had permitted to go on to Lisbon. Anacreon had recaptured the third, Nostra Senora..., and then had set off in pursuit of the privateer.
  
  ## Loss
  
  Anacreon was last sighted on 28 February 1814 in the English Channel as she was returning from Lisbon. Soon thereafter, she disappeared without trace in a storm. All aboard were lost.
  
  