HMS Crocodile (1806)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Crocodile.
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name: | HMS Crocodile |
| Ordered: | 1806 |
| Builder: | Temple shipbuilders |
| Launched: | 19 April 1806[1] |
| Out of service: | October 1816[1] |
| Fate: | broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Banterer Class |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Displacement: | 538[1] |
| Length: | 118 ft (36.0 m) (overall)[1] |
| Beam: | 32 ft 0 in (9.8 m)[1] |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)[1] |
| Propulsion: | sail[1] |
| Armament: | 22 9 pounder guns, 2 6 pounder guns, 8 24 pounder carronades[1] |
HMS Crocodile was a 22 gun frigate built in South Shields in 1806.[2]
The captains of HMS Crocodile include:[2]
- Captain George Edmund Byron Bettesworth
- While with Crocodile, Bettesworth was involved in an unsuccessful claim for salvage rights to the American vessel Walker. A French privateer had captured Walker, but her crew has subsequently recaptured their ship when Crocodile came on the scene and escorted her to Halifax. For this service, Crocodile claimed salvage rights. The court did not agree.[3]
- Captain Hon. George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
- Captain John Richard Lumley
Events
Thomas Ludlam, former Governor of Sierra Leone died on board HMS Crocodile on 25 July 1810.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "CROCODILE". Tyne Built Ships. eorge Robinson and David Waller. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- 1 2 Yamamoto., S. "Crocodile, 22". Sailing Navies. Sailing Navies. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- ↑ Stewart, James, Nova Scotia. Vice-Admiralty Court (1814) Reports of cases, argued and determined in the court of vice-admiralty: at Halifax, in Nova-Scotia, from the commencement of the war, in 1803, to the end of the year 1813, in the time of Alexander Croke. (London : J. Butterworth)., pp. 105-112.
- ↑ Timperley, Charles Henry (1839). A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. London: H. Johnson. p. 840.
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