HMS Chanticleer (1808)

Chanticleer off Valetta, Malta, by Nicolas Cammillieri
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Chanticleer
Ordered31 December 1807
BuilderDaniel List, East Cowes
Laid downMarch 1808
Launched26 July 1808
Completed5 October 1808
CommissionedSeptember 1808
Decommissioned1848, transferred to Coastguard
FateSold and broken up in June 1871 at Sheerness
General characteristics
Class and typeCherokee-class brig
Tons burthen237 bm
Length
  • 90 ft 3 in (27.5 m) (gundeck)
  • 70 ft 0+12 in (21.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam24 ft 7 in (7.5 m)
Draught9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) (laden); 6 ft 0 in (1.8 m) (unladen)
Depth of hold11 ft (3.4 m)
Sail planBrig
Complement75 as a ship-of-war
Armament8 × 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.