HMS Whiting (1805)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Whiting
Ordered	23 June 1803
Builder	Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda
Laid down	1803
Launched	November 1805
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Basque Roads 1809"
Captured	American privateer Dash 8 July 1812; released By French privateer Diligent 22 August 1812
General characteristics [1]
Type	Ballahoo-class schooner
Tons burthen	7041⁄94 (bm)
Length	55 ft 2 in (16.8 m) (overall) 40 ft 10+1⁄2 in (12.5 m) (keel)
Beam	18 ft 0 in (5.5 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	20
Armament	4 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Whiting was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner (a type of vessel often described as a Bermuda sloop) 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] She was a participant at the Battle of Basque Roads. A French privateer captured her at the beginning of the War of 1812, shortly after the Americans had captured and released her in the first naval incident of the war.