HMS Recruit (1829)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Recruit.

History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Recruit
Ordered25 March 1823
BuilderHM Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid downFebruary 1825
Launched17 August 1829
FateFoundered with loss of all hands in 1832
General characteristics
TypeBrig-sloop
Tons burthen237 bm in Cherokee
Length
  • 90 ft 0 in (27.43 m) (gundeck)
  • 73 ft 7.625 in (22.44408 m) (keel)
Beam24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draught12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement75
Armament2 × 6-pounder guns (bow) + 8 × 18-pounder carronades

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.

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

  1. ^ Pawlyn (2003), p. 132.
  2. ^ Hepper (1994), p. 161.
  3. ^ "Ship News". The Morning Post. No. 19257. 28 August 1832.

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