| HMS Chub (1807) | |
|---|---|
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Chub |
| Ordered: | 11 December 1805 |
| Builder: | Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda |
| Laid down: | 1806 |
| Launched: | May 1807 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 14 August 1812 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Ballahoo-class schooner |
| Tonnage: | 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 x 12-pounder carronades |
HMS Chub (or Chubb) 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] She and her crew were lost when she was wrecked in August 1812.
Service[]
Chub was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Wentworth Croke. Chub may have assisted at the invasion of Martinique between January and February 1809.[2] If so, she does not appear among the vessels whose crews qualified for the Naval General Service Medal when the Admiralty awarded it in 1847.[3]
Lieutenant William Innes replaced Croke in June 1809, and was in turn replaced by Lieutenant Samuel Nisbett in 1812.[1]
Chub captured several vessels in 1812 while on the Halifax station. On 18 July she captured the privateer Eliza and on 6 August the merchantman Grace.[4]
Fate[]
Chub was driven ashore and lost with all hands on 14 August on the "Sisters" (Black Rocks) within two miles of the Sambro Island Light near Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1][5] All on board perished.[6][7] She was stationed with the blockade of the American fleet at the time of sinking.
Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Winfield (2008), p.359.
- ↑ O'Byrne (1849), Vol. 1, p.245.
- ↑ "No. 20939". 26 January 1849. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20939/page/
- ↑ Baker, Harrison Scott, II (transcriber) American Prisoners of War Held at Halifax, During the War of 1812, Volume I. (Society of the War of 1812, Ohio).
- ↑ Gossett (1986), p. 84.
- ↑ Grocott (1997), p.343.
- ↑ Hepper (1994), p.141.
References[]
- Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London:Mansell).ISBN 0-7201-1816-6
- Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & 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
- O’Byrne, William R. (1849) A naval biographical dictionary: comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty's navy, from the rank of admiral of the fleet to that of lieutenant, inclusive. (London: J. Murray).
- 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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