HMS Lynx (1794)

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

HMS Lynx and HMS Monkey capturing three Danish luggers, 12 August 1809, oil on canvas, 19th century
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Lynx
Ordered18 February 1793
BuilderWilliam Cleverley, Gravesend
Laid downMay 1793
Launched14 February 1794
Completed30 May 1794 at Woolwich Dockyard
CommissionedApril 1794
Strickensold 28 April 1813
United Kingdom
NameRecovery
OwnerDaniel Bennett
Acquired1813 by purchase
FateBroken up 1843
General characteristics [1]
Class and type16-gun Cormorant-class sloop
Tons burthen420,[2] or 4263⁄94 bm
Length
  • Overall:108 ft 4 in (33.0 m), or 112 ft 9 in (34.4 m)[3]
  • Keel:90 ft 9 in (27.7 m)
Beam29 ft 8+1⁄2 in (9.1 m), or 29 ft 5 in (9.0 m)[3]
Depth of hold9 ft (2.7 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planSloop
Complement121
Armament

HMS Lynx was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Gravesend.[1] In 1795 she was the cause of an international incident when she fired on USRC Eagle. She was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, and during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars took numerous prizes, mostly merchant vessels but also including some privateers. She was also at the second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. She was sold in April 1813. She then became the whaler Recovery. She made 12 whaling voyages in the southern whale fishery, the last one ending in 1843, at which time her owner had her broken up.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 253.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference bswf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Stanbury et al. (2015), App.7.