| Career (UK) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Chub |
| Ordered: | 11 December 1805 |
| Builder: | Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda |
| Laid down: | 1806 |
| Launched: | May 1807 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 14 August 1812 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ballahoo-class schooner |
| Tonnage: | 7041⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 55 ft 2 in (16.81 m) (overall) 40 ft 10.5 in (12.5 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
| Sail plan: | Schooner |
| Complement: | 20 |
| Armament: | 4 x 12-pounder carronades |
HMS Chub (or Chubb) was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1807.[1] She and her crew were lost when she was wrecked in August 1812.
Chub was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Wentworth Croke. Lieutenant William Innes replaced Croke in June 1809, and was in turn replaced by Lieutenant Samuel Nisbett in 1812.[1]
Chub captured several vessels in 1812 while on the Halifax station. On 18 July she captured the privateer Eliza and on 6 August the merchantman Grace.[2]
Chub was driven ashore and lost with all hands on 14 August on the "Sisters" (Black Rocks) within two miles of the Sambro Island Light near Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1][3] All on board perished.[4][5] She was stationed with the blockade of the American fleet at the time of sinking.
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