HMS Crane (1809)
| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Crane |
| Ordered: | 5 November 1808 |
| Builder: | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Finsbury |
| Laid down: | December 1808 |
| Launched: | 27 September 1809 |
| Fate: | Foundered December 1813 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cruizer class brig-sloop |
| Tonnage: | 385 55/94 bm |
| Length: |
100 ft 0 in (30.48 m) (overall) 77 ft 3.5 in (23.6 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 7.5 in (9.335 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 121 |
| Armament: |
16 x 32-pounder carronades |
HMS Crane was a Royal Navy Cruizer class brig-sloop built by Josiah & Thomas Brindley at Frindsbury and launched in 1809.[1] She had a completely and 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, the Asia of Boston and the 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] Her next captain was Commander Thomas Forrest. In December 1813 Commander Robert Standly became her captain. Crane was lost, presumed foundered with all hands, in September 1814 while en route from Bermuda to Canada.[3]
References
- Abdo, Joseph C. (2005) On the Edge of History:the story of the Dabney family on the Island of Faial in the Azores archiplelago. (Lisbon, Portugal: Tenth Island Editions). ISBN 978-9729985805
- Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London:Mansell). ISBN 0-7201-1816-6
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1861762461.
