HMS Quail (1806)
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| Name: | HMS Quail |
| Ordered: | 11 December 1805 |
| Builder: | Custance & Stone, Great Yarmouth |
| Laid down: | February 1806 |
| Launched: | 26 April 1806 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 26 October 1808 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & type: | Cuckoo-class schooner |
| Tonnage: | 75 1⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 18 ft 3 in (5.6 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 6 in (2.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Schooner |
| Complement: | 20 |
| Armament: | 4 x 12-pounder carronades |
HMS Quail was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. Custance & Stone built her at Great Yarmouth and launched her in 1806.[1] Her decade-long career appears to have been relatively uneventful. She was sold in 1816.
Service
She was commissioned in June 1806 under Lieutenant Patrick Lowe for the Channel. [1] In 1807 she was under Lieutenant Isaac Charles Smith Collett for the North Sea.[Note 1] On 6 July Quail captured the Drie Gebroders.[2] She also was at the surrender of the Danish Fleet after the Battle of Copenhagen on 7 September.[Note 2] Quail also shared, with many other ships in the British fleet at Copenhagen, in the prize money for several captures in August: Hans and Jacob (17 August), Die Twee Gebroders (21 August), and Aurora, Paulina, and Ceres (30 and 31 August).[Note 3]
In 1809 Lieutenant John Osborn took command. On 19 May 1809 he captured the Jonge Jacob, P. Hansen, master.[5] On 25 July Quail was in company Strenuous and the hired armed cutter Albion when Albion captured the Maria Catherina. Osborn sailed Quail for the Mediterranean on 11 September 1811.[6]
Fate
In April 1814 Quail was under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Stewart. Quail was paid off into ordinary in October 1815, and put up for sale on 30 November.[7] She was sold at Yarmouth on 11 January 1816 for £260.[1]
Footnotes
- Notes
- ↑ In February 1807 Collett had been captain of Quail's sister ship, Woodcock when she had wrecked.
- ↑ The prize money amounted to £3 8s for an ordinary seaman, or slightly over two months wages.[3]
- ↑ The share of the prize money for an ordinary seaman for all five together was 7s 10d, or about a week's wages.[4]
- Citations
- 1 2 3 4 Winfield (2008), p.361.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16187. p. 1341. 27 September 1808.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16275. p. 1103. 11 July 1809.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16728. p. 924. 11 May 1813.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16364. p. 617. 24 April 1810.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16385. p. 1009. 7 July 1810.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 17088. p. 2430. 5 December 1815.
References
- 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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