&sq=&lang=&file=File:H.M._Sloop_Chanticleer_off_Valetta,_Malta,_by_Nicolas_S._Cammillieri.jpg) Chanticleer off Valetta, Malta, by Nicolas Cammillieri
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| Name | HMS Chanticleer |
| Ordered | 31 December 1807 |
| Builder | Daniel List, East Cowes |
| Laid down | March 1808 |
| Launched | 26 July 1808 |
| Completed | 5 October 1808 |
| Commissioned | September 1808 |
| Decommissioned | 1848, transferred to Coastguard |
| Fate | Sold and broken up in June 1871 at Sheerness |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Cherokee-class brig |
| Tons burthen | 237 bm |
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| Beam | 24 ft 7 in (7.5 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) (laden); 6 ft 0 in (1.8 m) (unladen) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Brig |
| Complement | 75 as a ship-of-war |
| Armament | 8 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns |
HMS Chanticleer was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. Chanticleer was launched on 26 July 1808. She served in European waters (mainly the North Sea) in the Napoleonic Wars and was paid off and laid up at Sheerness in July 1816. She was chosen for an 1828 scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Her poor condition on her return meant that the Admiralty replaced her for the second voyage in 1831 with another Cherokee-class brig, Beagle, which subsequently became famous because of the association with Charles Darwin. Chanticleer then spent 15 years as a customs watch ship at Burnham-on-Crouch and was broken up in 1871.