HMS Cressy (1810)
Cressey | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Cressy |
| Ordered | 1 October 1806 |
| Builder | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury |
| Laid down | March 18007 |
| Launched | 7 March 1810 |
| Commissioned | November 1811 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1832 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Vengeur-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,763 71⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 176 ft 1 in (53.7 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 47 ft 10 in (14.6 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 8 in (5.4 m) (light) |
| Depth of hold | 21 ft 1 in (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 590 |
| Armament |
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HMS Cressy was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1810 at Frindsbury.[1]
Service
On 24 December 1811 Cressy was off the west coast of Jutland, Denmark, under command by commander Charles Dudley Pater and in the company of St George, under Rear-admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, and Defence, when an extratropical cyclone and heavy seas came up. St George was jury-rigged and so Captain Atkins of Defence refused to leave her without the Admiral's permission. As a result, both were wrecked near Ringkøbing. Cressy did not ask for permission and so avoided wrecking.[2]
Both St George and Defence lost almost all their crews, including the Admiral. Most of the bodies that came ashore were buried in the sand dunes of Thorsminde, which have been known ever since as "Dead Mens Dunes".[2]
Shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812, on 12 August, Cressy shared in the seizure of several American vessels: Cuba, Caliban, Edward, Galen, Halcyon, and Cygnet.[a]
On 11 February 1813m Severn ran down and sank Wargrave. Cressy rescued Wargrave's crew. Wargrave, Ostler, master, was on a voyage from Dublin to Surinam.[4][b]
Fate
She was broken up in 1832.[1]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Lavery, p. 188
- ^ a b Gosset (1986), p. 81.
- ^ "No. 17076". The London Gazette. 4 November 1815. p. 2209.
- ^ Lloyd's List №4722.
- ^ Lloyd's Register (1810), Seq.№W29.
References
- Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
- Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2nd, revised ed.). Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.