HMS Tang (1807)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tang
Ordered	11 December 1805
Builder	Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda
Laid down	1806
Launched	May 1807
Fate	Lost, presumed foundered, February 1808
General characteristics [1]
Type	Ballahoo-class schooner
Tons burthen	70 41⁄94 (bm)
Length	55 ft 2 in (16.8 m) (overall) 40 ft 10+1⁄2 in (12.5 m) (keel)
Beam	18 ft 0 in (5.5 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	20
Armament	4 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Tang was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1807. ^[1] Like many of her class and the related Cuckoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career.

Service

Tang was commissioned in 1807 under Lieutenant George Senhouse. In 1808 Lieutenant Joseph Derby took command. ^[1]

Fate

Tang was lost with all hands in February 1808 in the North Atlantic while sailing from Bermuda to Britain. ^[2] Reports indicate that she had 25 people aboard, suggesting that she may also have been carrying some passengers. ^[3]

Citations

1. Winfield (2008), p. 360.
2. Hepper (1994), p. 122.
3. Gosset (1986), p. 69.

References

• Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. 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   978-1-86176-246-7.