Adonis class schooner
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Bacchus |
| Ordered: | 2 April 1804 |
| Builder: | Bermuda |
| Launched: | early 1806 |
| Commissioned: | 1806 |
| Fate: | Captured by the French in August 1807 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Tons burthen: | 110 93⁄94 bm |
| Length: | 68 ft 2 in (20.8 m) (gundeck) 50 ft 5 5⁄8 in (15.4 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 20 ft 4 in (6.2 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 35 |
| Armament: | Ten 18-pounder carronades |
HMS Bacchus was a schooner of the Adonis class of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806.
Bacchus was commissioned in 1806 under Lieutenant John Skinner. She sailed to Britain where she made good defects at Plymouth between 12 September and 29 November.[1] She returned to the West Indies. On 27 May 1807 she captured the Concord, Babcock, master.[2][Note 1]
The French captured Bacchus in August 1807 at an unknown date and under unknown circumstances.[4]
Footnotes
- Notes
- ↑ The prize money notice gives Skinner's full name as "George Augustus Elliot Skinner", but other accounts have this Skinner as the captain of Hirondelle, and in the Mediterranean. The prize money for a petty officer was £7 15s 0¼d; a seaman's share was £1 1s 7½d.[3] By the time the money was paid captain and crew had all disappeared.
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Winfield (2008), p.360.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16265. p. 855. 10 June 1809.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16269. p. 946. 24 June 1809.
- ↑ Hepper (1994), p.119.
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. OCLC 67375475.
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
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