HMS Cassandra (1806) - Misplaced Pages

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History

United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cassandra
Ordered	2 April 1804
Launched	1806
Commissioned	October 1806
Fate	Capsized and sank 13 August 1807
General characteristics
Class and type	Adonis-class schooner
Tons burthen	11093⁄94 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	10 × 18-pounder carronades

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.

Cassandra was commissioned in October 1806 under the command of Lieutenant George Le Blanc. She was ordered to carry dispatches to the squadron blockading Bordeaux, France. When she met up with the fifth rate frigate HMS 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.

Citations

^ Winfield (2008), p. 360.
Hepper (1994), p. 119.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) . 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.
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.

v t e Adonis-class schooners
Adonis Alban Alphea Bacchus Barbara Cassandra Claudia Laura Olympia Sylvia Vesta Zenobia
Preceded by: Ballahoo class Followed by: Cuckoo class

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1807
Shipwrecks	23 Jan: HMS Orpheus 12 Feb: HMS Atalante 13 Feb: HMS Wagtail, HMS Woodcock 14 Feb: HMS Ajax 18 Feb: HMS Snipe 28 Feb: Contest February (unknown date): Thought 4 Mar: HMS Blanche 5 Mar: HMS Pigmy 8 Mar: Crescent March (unknown date): HMS Cesar 20 Apr: HSwMS Ulla Fersen 29 May: HMS Jackal 30 May: Ganges 17 Jul: Pretty Lass 27 Jul: Fame 13 Aug: HMS Cassandra 14 Oct: HMS Pert 16 Oct: HMS Maria 25 Oct: HMS Subtle 10 Nov: Salisbury 28 Nov: HMS Boreas, Lady Warren 10 Dec: Otter 29 Dec: HMS Anson December (unknown date): Adolphe, Albion Unknown date: Ceres, Eliza Ann, HMS Moucheron
Other incidents	13 May HMS Dauntless
1806 1808

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