HMS Tang (1807)

History
UK
Name: HMS Tang
Ordered: 11 December 1805
Builder: Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda
Laid down: 1806
Launched: May 1807
Fate: Lost, presumed foundered, February 1808
General characteristics [1]
Type: Ballahoo-class schooner
Tonnage: 70 ​41⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 55 ft 2 in (16.8 m) (overall)
  • 40 ft 10 1⁄2 in (12.5 m) (keel)
Beam: 18 ft 0 in (5.5 m)
Depth of hold: 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Sail plan: Schooner
Complement: 20
Armament: 4 x 12-pounder carronades

HMS Tang was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner 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 1807.[1] Like many of her class and the related Cuckoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career.

Service

Tang was commissioned in 1807 under Lieutenant George Senhouse. In 1808 Lieutenant Joseph Derby took command.[1]

Fate

Tang was lost with all hands in February 1808 in the North Atlantic while sailing from Bermuda to Britain.[2] Reports indicate that she had 25 people aboard, suggesting that she may also have been carrying some passengers.[3]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield (2008), p.360.
  2. ↑ Hepper (1994), p.122.
  3. ↑ Gossett (1986), p. 69.

References

  • Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London:Mansell). ISBN 0-7201-1816-6
  • Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot). ISBN 0-948864-30-3
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.


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