HMS Cormorant (1804)

United Kingdom
Name	Blenheim
Launched	1804, Howden
Fate	Sold June 1804
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cormorant
Namesake	Cormorant
Fate	Sold December 1817
United Kingdom
Name	Blenheim
Acquired	1817 by purchase
Fate	Foundered late 1821
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen	327, or 327+76⁄94, or 328 bm
Length	100 ft 9 in (30.7 m) (overall) 81 ft 0 in (24.7 m) (keel)
Beam	27 ft 7 in (8.4 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 0 in (3.7 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	Sloop:70 Storeship:50
Armament	Blenheim:4 × 6-pounder guns Cormorant:14 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Cormorant was probably launched in 1803 at Howden Pans as the merchant ship Blenheim. The Admiralty purchased her in June and the Royal Navy took her into service to use her as a convoy escort. Then in 1809 it converted her into a storeship. After the Admiralty sold her in 1817, she resumed the Blenheim name and returned to mercantile service as a West Indiaman. She disappeared after 10 November 1821 and was presumed to have foundered.