HMS Blossom (1806)

HMS Blossom
His Majesty's ship Blossom off the Sandwich Islands
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Blossom
Ordered19 November 1805
BuilderRobert Guillaume, Northam
Laid downFebruary 1806
Launched10 December 1806
Completed21 April 1807
Reclassified
  • Exploration ship in 1825
  • Survey ship in 1829
  • Hulked in 1833
FateBroken up in August 1848
General characteristics [1]
Class and type18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war
Tons burthen427 bm
Length
  • 108 ft 4+12 in (33.0 m) (overall)
  • 90 ft 11+12 in (27.7 m) (keel)
Beam29 ft 8+34 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold9 ft (2.7 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement121
Armament
  • (as built)
  • Main deck: 16 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to the Pacific Ocean. She explored as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, the furthest point into the Arctic any non-Inuit had been at the time. She was finally broken up in 1848.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), pp.261–2.