HMS Manly was a 12-gun of the Royal Navy, launched in 1812. She served in the War of 1812, her boats participating in the Battle of Lake Borgne. She was sold in 1833. Active service Commissioned initially under Commander Edward Collier, she left Deal on 27 December 1812 and sailed to the Scheldt. On 23 March 1813, Manly sailed to the Americas. There in June she chased, but lost, the privateer Young Teazer. In the summer of 1813 Manly captured Flor de Jago, of 164 tons, sailing from Lisbon to Boston. Then on 2 August she captured the brig Hope, sailing from Batavia to Providence. Manly was stranded at Halifax on 13 November 1813 but was salved after incessant labor over three weeks. In early January 1814, Collier and his crew volunteered to reinforce the squadron on the Great Lakes, together with men from and . Seventy men left Halifax; they reached Kingston, Ontario on 22 March, having traveled some 900 miles in winter, almost entirely on foot. After Collier left, Lieutenant Vincent Newton took command of Manly. In May he was promoted to Commander, but remained with her. In August 1814 she joined Captain Gordon of and his small squadron. The squadron, without Manly destroyed shipping on the Potomac on 17 August. They then sailed up the Potomac to bombard Fort Washington while Vice-Admiral Alexander Cochrane landed the army at Benedict, Maryland on the Patuxent River on 19 and 20 August. On 20 August the 40-gun fourth rate Endymion-class frigate , the frigate and Manly sailed up the Patuxent River to follow the boats as far as possible. Cochrane and his force of marines and seamen entered Washington on the night of 24 August. The British then burnt the White House, the Treasury and the War Office. They left at 9 o'clock in the evening of the next day and returned to Nottingham, Maryland on the Patuxent where Cochrane boarded Manly. The campaign cost the Navy one man killed and six wounded, including one man of the Corps of Colonial Marines killed, and three wounded. Battle of Lake Borgne Commander Henry Montresor took command after Manly was sent to the Gulf of Mexico. In early December 1814, a British fleet massed for the assault on New Orleans. Between 12 and 15 December 1814, Captain Nicholas Lockyer of HMS Sophie led a flotilla of 45 boats, barges, lunches, and gigs