HMS Recruit (1829)

HMS Recruit was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop built at the HM Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 17 August 1829. After departing Falmouth, Cornwall, England, bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, in June 1832 she disappeared without trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Recruit.
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Recruit
Ordered: 25 March 1823
Builder: HM Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down: February 1825
Launched: 17 August 1829
Fate: Foundered with loss of all hands in 1832
General characteristics
Type: Brig-sloop
Tons burthen: 237 bm in Cherokee
Length:
  • 90 ft 0 in (27.43 m) (gundeck)
  • 73 ft 7.625 in (22.44408 m) (keel)
Beam: 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draught: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Depth of hold: 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement: 75
Armament: 2 × 6-pounder guns (bow) + 8 × 18-pounder carronades

References
  1. "Ship News". The Morning Post (19257). 28 August 1832.
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