HMS Claudia (1806)

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History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Claudia
OperatorRoyal Navy
Ordered2 April 1804
BuilderBermuda
LaunchedEarly 1806
CommissionedMarch 1806
FateWrecked 20 January 1809
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Adonis-class schooner
Tons burthen11093⁄94 bm
Length
  • 68 ft 2 in (20.8 m) (gundeck)
  • 50 ft 5+5⁄8 in (15.4 m) (keel)
Beam20 ft 4 in (6.2 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 3 in (3.1 m)
Sail planSchooner
Complement35
Armament10 x 18-pounder carronades

HMS Claudia was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806. She was commissioned under Lieutenant Anthony Bliss William Lord in March 1806.[1]

She moved to the Baltic station. On 26 August 1807 she detained the Danish bark Spes Feller.[2] Four days later, on 30 August, she detained Resolution.[3] Then on 4 September she captured Stockfisker, and on 29 April 1808 Neunderueiring.[4]

Claudia was wrecked off Kristiansand (Norway) on 20 January 1809 as she was attempting to enter the Baltic. Driven close to shore by a storm, after the storm abated she struck a reef and sank before her crew could launch her boats. Although Lord swam through the freezing waters to get a line to Norwegian rescuers, 14 men died from drowning or exposure to the extreme cold.[5][6]

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Winfield (2008), p. 360.
  2. ^ "No. 16408". The London Gazette. 25 September 1810. p. 1527.
  3. ^ "No. 16389". The London Gazette. 21 July 1810. p. 1084.
  4. ^ "No. 16258". The London Gazette. 20 April 1809. p. 720.
  5. ^ Hepper (1994), p. 128.
  6. ^ Raymond (2010), p. 206.

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Raymond, David John (2010) The Royal Navy in the Baltic from 1807-1812. (Thesis, Florida State University).
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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