HMS Quail (1817)

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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Quail
Ordered23 May 1816
BuilderDeptford Dockyard (M/shipwright William Stone)
Laid downAugust 1816
Launched3 January 1817
Fate Break up completed 8 April 1829
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Quail-class schooners
Tons burthen826194 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:55 ft 8 in (17.0 m)
  • Keel:44 ft 7+18 in (13.6 m)
Beam18 ft 7 in (5.7 m)
Depth of hold7 ft 6 in (2.3 m)
Sail plan Cutter
Complement30
Armament4 × 12-pounder carronades + 2 × 12-pounder swivel guns

HMS Quail was launched at Deptford in 1817 as the name ship of her class of schooners. She herself may have been cutter-rigged. She was broken up in 1829.

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Between 14 December 1819 and 14 January 1821 Quail served as a ship's tender to HMS Albion. She made a number of seizures of smugglers and their vessels. [lower-alpha 1] For other seizures made between 28 December 1820 and 13 December 1821 prize money was paid in June 1822. [lower-alpha 2] The next payment was for seizures between 23 February and 10 May 1822. [lower-alpha 3] The last payment was for seizures between 9 September 1822 and 10 December 1823. [lower-alpha 4]

On 31 January 1822 the Admiralty ordered Quail be renamed Providence; it rescinded the order on 11 April 1822. [1]

Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Quail cutter, of 82 tons", "lying at Portsmouth" for sale on 11 July 1827. [6] She did not sell then or on a number of later offer dates. She was finally broken up on 8 April 1829. [1]

Notes

  1. Prize money was paid in June 1821. A first-class share, that of Albion's captain, was £88 12s 4d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman on Albion, was worth £1 11s 3+34d. At the same time, a second class share for the lieutenant commanding Quail was worth £25 16s 10+14d; a sixth-class share for an ordinary seaman on Quail was worth £2 10s 11+14d. [2]
  2. A first-class share on Albion was worth £32 16s 9d and a sixth-class share was worth 10s 9d. A second-class share on Quail was worth £8 15s 1+14d and a sixth-class share was worth 7s 4+34d. [3]
  3. A first-class share on Albion was worth £6 19s 11d and a sixth-class share was worth 2s 5+14d. A second-class share on Quail was worth £1 17s 3+12d and a sixth-class share was worth 3s 9+34d. [4]
  4. A first-class share on Albion was worth £17 7s 6d and a sixth-class share was worth 4s 2+14d. A second-class share on Quail was worth £1 8s 7d and a sixth-class share was worth 6s 1+12d. [5]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield (2014), p. 269.
  2. "No. 17711". The London Gazette . 29 May 1821. p. 1158.
  3. "No. 17820". The London Gazette . 25 May 1822. p. 871.
  4. "No. 17877". The London Gazette . 10 December 1822. p. 2028.
  5. "No. 18019". The London Gazette . 17 April 1824. p. 623.
  6. "No. 18372". The London Gazette . 22 June 1827. p. 1346.

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