HMS Quail (1806)

HMS Quail was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. Custance & Stone built her at Great Yarmouth and launched her in 1806.[1] Her decade-long career appears to have been relatively uneventful. She was sold in 1816.

History
UK
Name: HMS Quail
Ordered: 11 December 1805
Builder: Custance & Stone, Great Yarmouth
Laid down: February 1806
Launched: 26 April 1806
Fate: Wrecked 26 October 1808
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Cuckoo-class schooner
Tonnage: 75 ​1⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 56 ft 2 in (17.1 m) (overall)
  • 42 ft 4 1⁄8 in (12.9 m) (keel)
Beam: 18 ft 3 in (5.6 m)
Depth of hold: 8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Schooner
Complement: 20
Armament: 4 x 12-pounder carronades
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Quail.

Service

She was commissioned in June 1806 under Lieutenant Patrick Lowe for the Channel. [1] In 1807 she was under Lieutenant Isaac Charles Smith Collett for the North Sea.[Note 1] On 6 July Quail captured the Drie Gebroders.[2] She also was at the surrender of the Danish Fleet after the Battle of Copenhagen on 7 September.[Note 2] Quail also shared, with many other ships in the British fleet at Copenhagen, in the prize money for several captures in August: Hans and Jacob (17 August), Die Twee Gebroders (21 August), and Aurora, Paulina, and Ceres (30 and 31 August).[Note 3]

In 1809 Lieutenant John Osborn took command. On 19 May 1809 he captured the Jonge Jacob, P. Hansen, master.[5] On 25 July Quail was in company Strenuous and the hired armed cutter Albion when Albion captured the Maria Catherina.[6] Osborn sailed Quail for the Mediterranean on 11 September 1811.

Fate

In April 1814 Quail was under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Stewart. Quail was paid off into ordinary in October 1815, and put up for sale on 30 November.[7] She was sold at Yarmouth on 11 January 1816 for £260.[1]

Footnotes
Notes
  1. In February 1807 Collett had been captain of Quail's sister ship, Woodcock when she had wrecked.
  2. The prize money amounted to £3 8s for an ordinary seaman, or slightly over two months wages.[3]
  3. The share of the prize money for an ordinary seaman for all five together was 7s 10d, or about a week's wages.[4]
Citations
  1. Winfield (2008), p.361.
  2. "No. 16187". The London Gazette. 27 September 1808. p. 1341.
  3. "No. 16275". The London Gazette. 11 July 1809. p. 1103.
  4. "No. 16728". The London Gazette. 11 May 1813. p. 924.
  5. "No. 16364". The London Gazette. 24 April 1810. p. 617.
  6. "No. 16385". The London Gazette. 7 July 1810. p. 1009.
  7. "No. 17088". The London Gazette. 5 December 1815. p. 2430.

References
  • 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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