HMS Curlew (1795)
HMS Curlew was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, commissioned in June 1795 under Commander Francis Ventris Field for Admiral Duncan's fleet.
Curlew | |
History | |
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Name: | HMS Curlew |
Ordered: | 4 & 18 March 1795 |
Builder: | John Randall & Co., Rotherhithe |
Laid down: | May 1795 |
Launched: | 16 July 1795 |
Commissioned: | 22 July - 29 August 1795 |
Fate: | Lost 1796 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type: | Diligence-class brig-sloop |
Type: | 18-gun brig-sloop |
Tons burthen: | 316 41⁄94 (bm) |
Length: |
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Beam: | 28 ft 1 1⁄2 in (8.6 m) |
Depth of hold: | 12 ft 0 in (3.7 m) |
Sail plan: | brig |
Complement: | 121 |
Armament: |
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On 31 October 1796 she disappeared during a storm in the North Sea, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.[1][2]
Citations and references
Citations
- Winfield (2008), p. 280.
- Grocott (1997), p. 39.
References
- Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham). ISBN 1-86176-030-2
- 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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