High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Starr was a 16-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Tanner, of Dartmouth and launched in July 1805. As a sloop she served on convoy duty, though she also participated in the invasion of Martinique in early 1809. She was rebuilt as a bomb vessel in May 1812 and renamed Meteor. As Meteor she served in the Baltic and then off the United States, participating in attacks on up the Potomac and on Baltimore and New Orleans. She was sold in October 1816.