HMS Woodcock (1806)

History
UK
Name	HMS Woodcock
Ordered	11 December 1805
Builder	Crane & Holmes, Great Yarmouth
Laid down	February 1806
Launched	11 April 1806
Fate	Wrecked 13 February 1807
General characteristics
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 5 in (5.6 m)
Draught	Unladen: 5 ft 0 in (1.5 m); Laden: 7 ft 6 in (2.3 m);
Depth of hold	8 ft 5 in (2.6 m)
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	20
Armament	4 x 12-pounder Carronades

HMS Woodcock was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. Crane & Holmes built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806.^[1] Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career.

She was commissioned in 1806 under Lieutenant Isaac Charles Smith Collett.^[1] She was wrecked 13 February 1807 at Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel in the Azores.^[2] She and her sister ship Wagtail had anchored there when a gale came up. Because of the storm it was impossible to clear the land and at 5pm Collett ran her ashore after her anchors had parted and water was continuously washing over her. Lines were passed to the shore and all her crew made it safely to land.^[3] Wagtail was wrecked three hours later.

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c Winfield (2008), p.361.
^ Grossett (1986), p. 56.
^ Hepper (1794), p.117.

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.

[Winfield-1] Winfield (2008), p.361.

[2] Grossett (1986), p. 56.

[3] Hepper (1794), p.117.

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