HMS Talbot (1807)

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

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Talbot
Ordered4 October 1805
BuilderJames Heath & Sons, East Teignmouth
Laid downMarch 1806
Launched22 July 1807
FateSold 1815 into mercantile service
United Kingdom
NameGeorge
OwnerJohnson
Acquired1816 by purchase
FateLast listed in 1831
General characteristics
Class and typeCormorant class ship-sloop; reclassed 1811 as Post ship
TypeQuarterdeck ship-sloop
Tons burthen48446⁄94, or 488,[1] or 498[2] (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 113 ft 2+1⁄2 in (34.5 m)
  • Keel: 94 ft 1 in (28.7 m)
Beam31 ft 1+3⁄8 in (9.5 m)
Draught
  • Unladen: 7 ft 3 in (2.2 m)
  • Laden: 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 4 in (2.8 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement121
Armament
  • UD: 18 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder carronades
  • Centreline: 1 × 12-pounder gun

HMS Talbot was a British Royal Navy 18-gun sloop-of-war built by James Heath & Sons, of East Teignmouth, and launched in 1807. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment was the reversal of the liberation of Iceland that the colorful, erratic, former Royal Navy seaman and privateer Jørgen Jørgensen had carried out. Talbot was sold in 1815 for mercantile service. Renamed George, she interspersed several voyages to Ceylon and India with three voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She was last listed in 1831.

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