High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Ballahoo (also Balahou, Ballahou or Ballahon) was the first of the Royal Navy`s Ballahoo-class schooners, vessels of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. She patrolled primarily in the Leeward Islands, taking several small prizes, before an American privateer captured her in 1814 during the War of 1812.