HMS Cockatrice (1781)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Cockatrice.

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Cockatrice
NamesakeThe Cockatrice
Ordered11 April 1780
BuilderThomas King, Dover
Laid downc.May 1780
Launched3 July 1781
Out of serviceApril 1793
FateSold 1802
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMhb Cockatrice
AcquiredAugust 1804 by contract
FateReturned to owners 1808
United Kingdom
NameCockatrice
Owner
  • 1809:Wright[1]
  • 1810:Miller & Co.[2]
  • 1815:Goldie & Co.[3]
FateCondemned at Lisbon c.May 1816
General characteristics [4][a]
Class and type
Tons burthen
  • HMS: 1813⁄94 (bm)
  • HMhb: 18392⁄94,[6] or 195 (bm)[7]
  • Merchantman:200 (bm)[1]
Length69 ft 4 in (21.1 m) (overall); 52 ft 0 in (15.8 m) (keel)
Beam25 ft 7 in (7.8 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 9 in (3.3 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement
  • HMS:55 (later 70)
  • HMhb:45
Armament
  • HMS:
  • HMhb:12 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Merchantman:12 guns[2]

HMS Cockatrice was the fourth of the Alert-class British Royal Navy cutters. She was launched in 1781 and had an uneventful career until the Navy sold her in 1802. Private interests purchased her, lengthened her, and changed her rig to that of a brig. They hired her out to the Navy and she was in service as a hired armed brig from 1806 to 1808. She then returned to mercantile service until she was condemned at Lisbon in May 1816 as not worth repairing.

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  4. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 353.
  5. ^ Clowes (1997), p. 335.
  6. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 394.
  7. ^ Grocott (1997), p. 118.


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