HMS Woodcock (1806)

HMS Woodcock was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner. Crane & Holmes built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806.[1] Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career.

History
UK
Name: HMS Woodcock
Ordered: 11 December 1805
Builder: Crane & Holmes, Great Yarmouth
Laid down: February 1806
Launched: 11 April 1806
Fate: Wrecked 13 February 1807
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Cuckoo-class schooner
Tonnage: 75​1⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 56 ft 2 in (17.1 m) (overall)
  • 42 ft 4 1⁄8 in (12.9 m) (keel)
Beam: 18 ft 5 in (5.6 m)
Draught:
  • Unladen: 5 ft 0 in (1.5 m)
  • Laden: 7 ft 6 in (2.3 m)
Depth of hold: 8 ft 5 in (2.6 m)
Sail plan: Schooner
Complement: 20
Armament: 4 x 12-pounder Carronades

She was commissioned in 1806 under Lieutenant Isaac Charles Smith Collett.[1] She was wrecked 13 February 1807 at Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel in the Azores.[2] She and her sister ship Wagtail had anchored there when a gale came up. Because of the storm it was impossible to clear the land and at 5pm Collett ran her ashore after her anchors had parted and water was continuously washing over her. Lines were passed to the shore and all her crew made it safely to land.[3] Wagtail was wrecked three hours later.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Winfield (2008), p. 361.
  2. Gosset (1986), p. 56.
  3. Hepper (1994), p. 117.

References

  • Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • 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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