HMS Grasshopper (1813)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Grasshopper.

HMS Pelorus, a sister-ship also converted to a ship-sloop
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Grasshopper
Ordered6 January 1812
BuilderMaster Shipwright Nicholas Diddams, Portsmouth Dockyard[1]
Laid downAugust 1812
Launched16 February 1813
CommissionedMay 1813
Out of servicePaid off, 6 September 1831
FateSold on 30 May 1832
United Kingdom
NameGrasshopper
OwnerThomas Ward
Acquired1838 by purchase
FateNo information post 1847
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeCruizer-class brig sloop (ship-sloop from 1822)
Tons burthen381,[2] or 387,[2] or 38241⁄94, or 404[2] (bm)
Length100 ft 0 in (30.5 m) (overall) 77 ft 3+1⁄2 in (23.6 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Draught6 ft 10 in (2.1 m) (unladen) 11 ft 0 in (3.4 m) (laden)
Depth of hold12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail planBrig (full-rigged ship from 1822)
Complement
  • RN: 121
  • Whaler (1839):32[2]
  • Whaler (1843):27[2]
Armament
Grasshopper when re-rigged as a ship-sloop in 1822

HMS Grasshopper was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop built at Portsmouth Dockyard by Nicholas Diddams and launched in 1813. She was the second ship of the class to bear the name; the first Grasshopper had been stranded at Texel and surrendered to the Batavian Republic on Christmas Day 1811. The present Grasshopper remained in service until sold in 1832. She then became a whaler in the Southern Whale Fisheries, making four voyages between 1832 and 1847.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), pp. 303–304.
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