HMS Haddock (1805)

Haddock body plan
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Haddock
Ordered23 June 1803
BuilderGoodrich & Co. (prime contractor), shipyard of Isaac Skinner, Bermuda
Laid down1803
Launched21 March 1805
CommissionedApril 1805
Captured12 November 1809
FateSunk four days after capture
General characteristics [1]
TypeBallahoo-class schooner
Tons burthen704194 (bm)
Length
  • 55 ft 2 in (16.8 m) (overall)
  • 40 ft 10+12 in (12.5 m) (keel)
Beam18 ft 0 in (5.5 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Sail planSchooner
Complement20
Armament4 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Haddock was a Royal Navy schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1805.[1]

On Thursday 21st inst launched off the stocks at Mr Isaac Skinner's shipyard his Majesty's Schooner "Haddock". The above schooner is said (by every merchant and shipbuilder) to be the completest vessel ever built in Bermuda

— The Royal Gazette, 30 March 1805[2]

Haddock only sailed for some three to four years before the French captured and sank her in 1809 near the English Channel. This schooner was the only Royal Navy ship ever to use the name.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 359.
  2. ^ Bermuda Historical Quarterly, Vol 18, no 2, 1961