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HMSChanticleer(1808)

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Chanticleeroff Valetta, Malta, by Nicolas Cammillieri
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMSChanticleer
Ordered31 December 1807
BuilderDaniel List,East Cowes
Laid downMarch 1808
Launched26 July 1808
Completed5 October 1808
CommissionedSeptember 1808
Decommissioned1848, transferred to Coastguard
FateSold and broken up in June 1871 at Sheerness
General characteristics
Class and typeCherokee-class brig
Tons burthen237bm
Length
  • 90 ft 3 in (27.5 m) (gundeck)
  • 70 ft0+1⁄2in (21.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam24 ft 7 in (7.5 m)
Draught9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) (laden); 6 ft 0 in (1.8 m) (unladen)
Depth of hold11 ft (3.4 m)
Sail planBrig
Complement75 as a ship-of-war
Armament8 × 18-poundercarronades+ 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMSChanticleerwas aCherokee-class10-gunbrigof theRoyal Navy.Chanticleerwas launched on 26 July 1808. She served in European waters (mainly the North Sea) in the Napoleonic Wars and was paid off and laid up at Sheerness in July 1816. She was chosen for an 1828 scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Her poor condition on her return meant that the Admiralty replaced her for the second voyage in 1831 with anotherCherokee-class brig,Beagle,which subsequently became famous because of the association with Charles Darwin.Chanticleerthen spent 15 years as a customs watch ship at Burnham-on-Crouch and was broken up in 1871.

War service

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Her initial base wasGreat Yarmouth.She was commissioned in September 1808 under Commander Charles Harford, but he drowned in an accident on 19 October, so Commander Richard Spear took command in November 1808. On 27 July 1809,Chanticleercaptured the Russian luggerEmperor.[1]Then on 24 October,Sheldrakecaptured theJupiter.LeverettandChanticleershared in the prize money by agreement.[2]

On 2 September 1811 while off the coast of Norway,Chanticleerbecame involved in an action with three 18-gun brigs of theRoyal Danish Navy,Lolland,AlsenandSamsøe.[3]Outgunned and outnumbered,Chanticleermade good her escape, leaving her consort,Manly,for the Danes to capture.

On 28 August 1810,Chanticleercaptured the Dutch fishing boatHoop.[4]Chanticleerwas under the command of John G. M'Bride M'Killop (Acting Commander) when she took possession of the derelict vesselHaabeton 16 November 1811.[a]

Chanticleerwas in company withParthianwhen they captured theJobbon 2 January 1812.[7]Then on 9 April 1812,Chanticleercaptured the Danish vesselChristine.[8]

On 23 October 1812,Chanticleer,ClioandOberoncaptured theJonge Henrick.[9]

Chanticleerserved chiefly as an escort vessel and cruised off the European coast. Commander Stewart Blacker assumed command in May 1813.[10]In 1813, she took threeprizesnear theGermanarchipelagoofHeligolandin theNorth Sea.Commander J. Thomson replace Blacker in July 1814.[10]

In August 1815Chanticleer,under the command of Lieutenant George Tupman (Acting), was part of the British force thatcaptured Guadeloupe.[b]She swept one beach of the few French troops that made an appearance; she then provided cover at another beach.[11][c]

On 2 October 1815ChanticlearandBarbadoesbrought a French brig into Antigua. The brig was carrying 208 slaves from Africa and some ivory tusks.[13]

Post-war service

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Chanticleerwas at Chatham in 1817. On 23 October 1821 Captain Henry Eden took command. He sailed her to the Mediterranean,[10]where he was "very efficiently occupied during the revolution in Greece."[14]Commander Burton Macnamara replaced him in July 1822. Two months laterChanticleerwas dispatched toFanari, Preveza,to supervise evacuation of theSouliotes.[15]

ChanticleeratPiraeusport

Charles James Hope Johnstone took command in September 1824, still in the Mediterranean. He waspostedin December 1826 and command devolved to an acting commander until April 1827, when Commander John Balfour Maxwell took command.[10]

St. Martin's Cove near Cape Horn

Chanticleerwas dispatched on a scientific expedition in thePacific Oceanin 1828 under the command of CaptainHenry Foster,who had taken command in December 1827.[10]He explored the South Atlantic, and especially theSouth Shetland Islands;Port FosteronDeception Island,which is thecalderaof an extinct volcano, is named after him. On the expedition, the ship visited theRiver PlateandStaten IslandofArgentina,Cape HornofChileat the southernmost tip ofSouth America,New Zealand,South Georgia,and rounded theCape of Good Hope.From there she sailed back to South America viaSaint Helena,Ascension IslandandFernando de Noronha.Chanticleerreached the South American coast atSaint Louis,Maranham.[d]From there she sailed up the Amazon river toPará.Chanticleernext arrived atPort of Spain,Trinidad,sailing from there toLa Guairaand on toPortobelo, Colón.Foster sent hisfirst lieutenant,Horatio Thomas Austinacross theIsthmus of Darien.After Austin returned, Foster set out to conduct some more scientific tests in the same area. Unfortunately, after he had completed his experiments and was on his way back to his ship, Foster fell out of his canoe in theChagres Riverand drowned.[e]After Foster's death, the ship's command fell to Austin. He sailedChanticleeracross theAtlantic OceantoFalmouthin 1831.

Chanticleerhad originally been scheduled to make thesecond South America surveyof 1831, but due to her poor condition after her three-year voyage, the Admiralty sentBeagleinstead.[f]Thus it wasBeagle,and notChanticleer,that became the ship upon whichCharles Darwinestablished his reputation as anaturalist.

Instead of sendingChanticleerto South America, the Navy lent her to the Royal Sailing Society, Thames. That assignment lasted from 1831 to 1832.[10]

In 1832,Dr John Frostobtained an Admiralty grant to establishChanticleeras ahospital shipto be moored offMillbankto serve as a refuge forThamesboatmen. However, Frost overextended himself and the plan fell through.[18]

Fate

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In 1845,Chanticleerwas towed toBurnham-on-CrouchinEssex,for use in theRiver Crouchas aCustomswatch ship.[10]She was re-namedWV5(Watch Vessel 5) on 25 May 1863 and served in that capacity until 1870.[g]She was broken up in June 1871 atSheerness.

Notes

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  1. ^A first-class share of the salvage money was worth£253 6s4d;a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth £5 6s 3¼d.[5]On a subsequent payment, a first-class share was worth £99 18s 1d; a sixth-class share was worth £2 1s 10¾d.[6]
  2. ^For more on George Tupman see:O'Byrne, William R.(1849)."Tupman, George".A Naval Biographical Dictionary.London: John Murray.
  3. ^In an allocation of bounty money in March 1823, a first-class share was worth £30 10s 6½d; a sixth-class share was worth 11s 7½d. As a lieutenant, Tupman would probably have qualified for a second-class share, worth £6 12s 3½d.[12]
  4. ^In 1823 the British sailor and liberator AdmiralLord Cochranehad driven out the Portuguese and it became part of theEmpire of Brazil.For this achievement Lord Cochrane became 1stMarques of Maranhãoand governor of the province of Maranhão.
  5. ^Foster had apparently set out on his trip in good spirits, but whether due to precaution, premonition, or plan, he had given his keys to a Mr. Webster, whom he instructed to pay his debts, and had bequeathed various articles to his friends.[16]
  6. ^"H.M.S.Chanticleer(one of the six survey ships built in 1817) was scheduled for the second South America survey, but because she was in such poor condition theBeaglewas selected instead. "[17]
  7. ^A watch vessel was a vessel carrying lights and a bell, and anchored to mark the position of a hazard to navigation such as a wreck.

Citations

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  1. ^"No. 16392".The London Gazette.31 July 1810. p. 1148.
  2. ^"No. 16461".The London Gazette.11 August 1810. p. 435.
  3. ^James (1837), Vol. 5, pp.347-8.
  4. ^"No. 16485".The London Gazette.11 May 1811. p. 900.
  5. ^"No. 17014".The London Gazette.20 May 1815. p. 950.
  6. ^"No. 17699".The London Gazette.21 April 1821. p. 899.
  7. ^"No. 16710".The London Gazette.26 September 1812. p. 510.
  8. ^"No. 16646".The London Gazette.15 September 1812. p. 1893.
  9. ^"No. 17048".The London Gazette.5 August 1815. p. 1598.
  10. ^abcdefg"NMM, vessel ID 382156"(PDF).Warship Histories, vol v.National Maritime Museum.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2 August 2011.Retrieved30 July2011.
  11. ^"No. 17062".The London Gazette.18 September 1815. pp. 1913–1914.
  12. ^"No. 17909".The London Gazette.29 March 1823. p. 506.
  13. ^"The Marine List".Lloyd's List.No. 5033. 22 December 1815.hdl:2027/uc1.c2735027.Retrieved20 August2020.
  14. ^O'Byrne (1849), p.324.
  15. ^Waddington (1825), pp.206-7.
  16. ^The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction,Volume 25, p.42.
  17. ^Events leading up to Darwin's Beagle VoyageArchived25 January 2008 at theWayback Machine,AboutDarwin.com. Accessed 24 January 2008.
  18. ^"Obituary: John Frost, esq".The Gentleman's Magazine.Vol. XIV. F. Jefferies. 1840. pp. 665–666.

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