HMS Echo (1797)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Echo and Echo (ship).

Echo
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Echo
OperatorRoyal Navy
Ordered19 December 1796
BuilderThomas King, Dover
Laid downFebruary 1797
LaunchedSeptember 1797
CommissionedOctober 1797
FateSold May 1809
United Kingdom
NameEcho
OwnerDaniel Bennett
Acquired1809 by purchase
FateWrecked 1 April 1820
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeEcho-class brig
Tons burthen3419⁄94,[1] or 342,[2] or 345,[3] (bm)
Length
  • Overall:96 ft 1+1⁄4 in (29.3 m)
  • Keel:75 ft 2 in (22.9 m)
Beam29 ft 6 in (9.0 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 0 in (3.0 m)
Sail planShip-sloop
Complement90
Armament
  • Navy sloop:16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns
  • Whaler (wartime): 10 × 12 and 6-pounder guns.[4]

HMS Echo, launched in 1797 at Dover, was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy. She served on the Jamaica station between 1799 and 1806, and there captured a small number of privateers. The Navy sold her in 1809 and she became a whaler. She made four complete whale-hunting voyages but was wrecked in the Coral Sea in April 1820 during her fifth whaling voyage.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 264.
  2. ^ British Southern Whale Fishery Database – voyages: Voyages: Echo.
  3. ^ Clayton 2014, pp. 108–9.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference LR1810 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).