HMS Crane (1806)

HMS Crane was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. She was built by Custance & Stone at Great Yarmouth and launched 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.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Crane.

History
UK
Name: HMS Crane
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 3 in (2.5 m)
Sail plan: Schooner
Complement: 20
Armament: 4 x 12-pounder carronades

She was commissioned in 1806 under Lieutenant John Cameron for operations in the North Sea.[1] In May 1808 Crane sent into Plymouth the captured Danish vessel Justitia.[2]

In 1808 Crane was under a Lieutenant Mitchell, and then under Lieutenant Joseph Tindale.[1]

At 7:30 pm on 25 October 1808 bad weather drove her from her anchorage at Plymouth.[3] She dropped a second anchor. By 4:00 am on 26 October 1808 she was near shore and got under way to make for the Sound. She returned three hours later to find an anchorage but a squall hit her as she went about. She let go an anchor but struck a rock off Plymouth Hoe. She fired her guns to signal distress, which brought out several boats from Plymouth Dockyard.[4] With some assistance she was refloated, but she went aground again. She sank in deeper water with her starboard gunwales just clearing the surface.[3] Boats picked up all her crew from the water.[4][5] She was later broken up.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Winfield (2008), p. 361.
  2. Lloyd's List, - accessed 26 November 2013.
  3. Gosset (1986), p. 67.
  4. Hepper (1994), p. 126.
  5. Grocott (1997), p. 263.

References

  • Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
  • Grocott, Terence (1997). Shipwrecks of the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Chatham. ISBN 1-86176-030-2.
  • 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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