HMS Recruit was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop built at the HM Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 17 August 1829. She became a packet for the Post Office packet service, sailing from Falmouth, Cornwall.
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Recruit |
| Ordered | 25 March 1823 |
| Builder | HM Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down | February 1825 |
| Launched | 17 August 1829 |
| Fate | Foundered with loss of all hands in 1832 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 237 bm in Cherokee |
| Length |
|
| Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Complement | 75 |
| Armament | 2 × 6-pounder guns (bow) + 8 × 18-pounder carronades |
On 29 May 1832, she sailed from Falmouth (or Bermuda – accounts differ), bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia (or Bermuda), under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Hodges, RN.[1][2] She disappeared without trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the death of all aboard.[3]
Citations
edit- ^ Pawlyn (2003), p. 132.
- ^ Hepper (1994), p. 161.
- ^ "Ship News". The Morning Post. No. 19257. 28 August 1832.
References
edit- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3. OCLC 622348295.
- Pawlyn, Tony (2003). The Falmouth Packets, 1689–1851. Truran. ISBN 9781850221753.