HMS Crane (1809)

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Crane
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
NameHMS Crane
Ordered5 November 1808
BuilderJosiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury
Laid downDecember 1808
Launched27 September 1809
FateFoundered December 1813
General characteristics [1]
Type Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen385 5594 bm
Length
  • 100 ft 0 in (30.5 m) (overall)
  • 77 ft 3+12 in (23.6 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 7+12 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Propulsion Sails
Sail planBrig
Complement121
Armament16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow guns

HMS Crane was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809. [1] She had an unusually uneventful five-year career before she foundered in 1814.

She was commissioned in September 1809 under Cmdr. James Stuart for the Irish station. [1] Stuart captured two American vessels, Asia of Boston and Washington of Marblehead, on their way home from Archangel. He brought the crews into Horta, in the Azores, and released them to John B. Dabney, the American consul, who repatriated them. It is not at all clear why Stuart had detained the Americans. [2]

In August 1811 Commander William Haydon took temporary command and sailed her for the Leeward Islands on 29 September 1812. [1] On 13 December 1812, she collided with the British merchant ship Robert Augustus, which was on a voyage from Barbados to Surinam; Robert Augustus sank without loss of life. [3] Crane's next captain was Commander Thomas Forrest. In December 1813 Commander Robert Standly became her captain. [1]

On 4 April 1814 Crane chased the American privateer Chasseur, of 14 guns and 135 men, off St Kitts, but was unable to capture her. [4]

Crane was lost, presumed foundered with all hands, in September 1814 while en route from Bermuda to Canada. [5] [6]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Winfield (2008), p. 301.
  2. Abdo (2005), p. 60.
  3. "Lloyd's Marine List – March 19, 1813". Caledonian Mercury. No. 14239. 25 March 1813.
  4. Lloyd's List (20 May 1814).
  5. Gosset (1986), p. 94.
  6. Hepper (1994), p. 152.

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