HMS Cassandra (1806)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Cassandra
Ordered: 2 April 1804
Builder: Bermuda
Launched: 1806
Commissioned: October 1806
Fate: Capsized and sank August 1807
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen:110 9394 bm
Length:68 ft 2 in (20.8 m) (gundeck)
50 ft 5 58 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:10 x 18-pounder carronades
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Cassandra.

HMS Cassandra 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 in October 1806 under the command of Lieutenant George Le Blanc.[1] She was ordered to carry dispatches to the squadron blockading Bordeaux. When she met up with Naiad on 13 August 1807, Le Blanc left Cassandra to take the dispatches to Naiad. Two sudden squalls rolled Cassandra over on her beam ends, capsizing her and causing her to sink stern first. Eleven men, and one woman and her child drowned.[2]

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Winfield (2008), p.360.
  2. Hepper (1994), p.119.

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