HMS Cassandra (1806)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Cassandra
Ordered:	2 April 1804
Builder:	Bermuda
Launched:	1806
Commissioned:	October 1806
Fate:	Capsized and sank August 1807
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen:	110  ^93⁄94 bm
Length:	68 ft 2 in (20.8 m) (gundeck) 50 ft 5 ^5⁄8 in (15.4 m) (keel)
Beam:	20 ft 4 in (6.2 m)
Depth of hold:	10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	35
Armament:	10 x 18-pounder carronades

HMS Cassandra was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806.

She was commissioned in October 1806 under the command of Lieutenant George Le Blanc.^[1] She was ordered to carry dispatches to the squadron blockading Bordeaux. When she met up with Naiad on 13 August 1807, Le Blanc left Cassandra to take the dispatches to Naiad. Two sudden squalls rolled Cassandra over on her beam ends, capsizing her and causing her to sink stern first. Eleven men, and one woman and her child drowned.^[2]

Footnotes

1. Winfield (2008), p.360.
2. Hepper (1994), p.119.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
• Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
• Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.