High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Halcyon (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop that Edward Larking William Spong built at King`s Lynn and launched in 1813. She had one of the shortest lives of any vessel of her class. She was commissioned on 13 July under Commander John Houlton Marshall for the West Indies. During her short period of active duty Halcyon escorted convoys and cruised. Less than a year after her commissioning she was wrecked.