HMS Stork (1796)

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Cormorant class (1793), and modified Cormorant class (1805) RMG J4212.png
Stork
History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
NameHMS Stork
Ordered6 November 1794
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downDecember 1795
Launched29 November 1796
Completed3 August 1797 at Deptford Dockyard
CommissionedDecember 1796
Out of serviceSold 30 May 1816
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique"[1]
General characteristics
Class and type16-gun Cormorant-class ship sloop
Tons burthen426 9294 (bm)
Length
  • 108 ft 4 in (33.0 m) (gundeck)
  • 90 ft 8+38 in (27.6 m) (keel)
Beam29 ft 9 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planSloop
Complement121
ArmamentUpper deck: 16 × 6 pdrs + 12 × ½ pdr swivels

HMS Stork was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, ordered in November 1794 to a joint design by Sir John Henslow and William Rule, launched in 1796 at Deptford Dockyard.

Career[]

Stork engaging the French brig Cygne and two armed schooners anchored off the Pearl Rock, Martinique, on 12 December 1808. John Christian Schetky

She was commissioned in December 1796 under Commander Richard Pearson. Under various commanding officers, she served during the rest of the French Revolutionary War and subsequently throughout the Napoleonic War, being paid off at Sheerness from service in September 1815 and sold for breaking up eight months later.

References[]

  • Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793-1817 (Seaforth Publishing, 2007) ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 242.


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