HMS Pigeon (1806)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pigeon
Ordered	11 December 1805
Builder	Custance & Stone, Great Yarmouth
Laid down	February 1806
Launched	26 April 1806
Fate	Wrecked 5 January 1809
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Cuckoo-class schooner
Tons burthen	751⁄94 (bm)
Length	56 ft 2 in (17.1 m) (overall) 42 ft 4+1⁄8 in (12.9 m) (keel)
Beam	18 ft 3 in (5.6 m)
Draught	Unladen: 5 ft 1+1⁄2 in (1.6 m) Laden: 7 ft 6+1⁄2 in (2.3 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	20
Armament	4 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Pigeon (or Pidgeon) was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner. Custance & Stone built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806.^[1] Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career.