High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Hornet was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, ordered 18 February 1793, built by Marmaduke Stalkart and launched 3 February 1794 at Rotherhithe. In November 1796, Captain John Nash took command and took the Hornet to the West Indies. In 1800 she accompanied a convoy to the West Indies. While at Guadeloupe in October, a boat from Hornet attempted to press some men off the New Ceres, whose crew resisted, killing Hornet's second lieutenant, and wounding another crewman.

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