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Gladiator, 1785
Type: 4th rate ; Armament 44
Launched : 1785 ;
Disposal date or year : 1817
Disposal Details : BU
Notes:
1805 Portsmouth ; Receiving Ship
6 - 11 Mar 1807 Court-martial of Sir Home Popham for unapproved expedition to Buenos-Ayres, and leaving the Cape of Good Hope undefended
5-6 Feb1810, Court-martial assembled on board the Gladiator at Portsmouth, to try Captain Lake for having put a seaman of the Recruit on shore upon an uninhabited island. See Recruit for full details.
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1st of September 1801
It would be almost superfluous to state the result of the court-martial which was afterwards held upon Captain Ferris and the late officers and ship's company of the Hannibal. The court, of which Rear-admiral Holloway was president, sat onboard the Gladiator, in Portsmouth harbour, on the 1st of September. After the most honourable acquittal that a brave man could desire, Captain Ferris had his sword returned to him by the president, with the following address: " Captain Ferris I have great pleasure in returning this sword to you, as I feel assured, if ever you have occasion to unsheath it again, it will be used with the same gallantry which you so nobly displayed in defending his majesty's ship Hannibal."