HMS Crash (1797)

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Crash
Ordered7 February 1797
BuilderMrs Frances Barnard & Co, Deptford
Laid downFebruary 1797
Launched5 April 1797
CommissionedApril 1797
Captured26 August 1798
Batavian Republic
Namede Crash
Acquiredby capture 26 August 1798
Captured11 August 1799
Great Britain
NameHMS Crash
AcquiredBy capture 11 August 1799
FateSold September 1802
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeAcute-class gun-brig
Tons burthen1604794 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:75 ft 3 in (22.94 m)
  • Keel:61 ft 10+12 in (18.860 m)
Beam22 ft 1 in (6.73 m)
Depth of hold7 ft 11+12 in (2.426 m)
Sail planBrig
Complement50
Armament12 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 24-pounder bow chasers

HMS Crash was a 12-gun Acute-class gun-brig. She was launched in April 1797 as GB No. 15 and received the name Crash in August. She served against the French and Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars, though after her capture in 1798 she spent a year in the service of the Batavian Republic before the British recaptured her. She was sold in 1802.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 331–332.