HMS Curlew (1795)
Appearance
![]() Curlew
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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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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.
On 31 October 1796 she disappeared during a storm in the North Sea, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.[1][2][3]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 280.
- ^ Grocott (1997), p. 39.
- ^ Hepper (1994), p. 82.
References
[edit]- Grocott, Terence (1997). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. London: Chatham. ISBN 1861760302.
- 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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.