HMS Crash (1797)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Crash |
| Ordered: | 7 February 1797 |
| Builder: | Mrs Frances Barnard & Co, Deptford |
| Laid down: | February 1797 |
| Launched: | 5 April 1797 |
| Commissioned: | April 1797 |
| Captured: | 26 August 1798 |
 Batavian Republic
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| Name: | de Crash |
| Acquired: | by capture 26 August 1798 |
| Captured: | 11 August 1799 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Crash |
| Acquired: | by capture 11 August 1799 |
| Fate: | Sold September 1802 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Acute-class gun-brig |
| Tons burthen: | 160 47⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 22 ft 1 in (6.73 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 7 ft 11 1⁄2 in (2.426 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 50 |
| Armament: | 12 x 18-pounder carronades + 2 x 24-pounder bow chasers |
HMS Crash was a 12-gun Acute-class gun-brig. She was launched in April 1797 as GB No. 15 and received the name Crash in August. She served against the French and Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars, though after her capture in 1798 she spent a year in the service of the Batavian republic before the British recaptured her. She was sold in 1802.
John Henslow designed the Acute-class gun-brigs. They were initially given numbers only, but on 7 August they all received names.
GB No. 15 was commissioned in April 1797 under Lieutenant James Anderson.
Under Lieutenant Bulkeley Mackworth Praed, who took command in early 1797, Crash participated in operations under Sir Home Popham against the locks and sluice gates of the Bruges canal in May 1798.
On 23 August she was in company with Ariadne but they separated in bad weather that worsened as it continued.Crash did not handle the weather well despite the crew having thrown her guns overboard. On 26 August she anchored near land but the anchors did not hold and on 26 August she grounded at Vlieland. Her crew holed her bottom and threw their remaining arms and ammunition overboard before they went ashore. There Dutch soldiers took them prisoner. The Dutch took possession of Crash and were able to return her to service.
Almost a year after her capture, on 11 August 1799, the 16-gun sloop Pylades, under Captain Adam Mackenzie, the 16-gun brig-sloop Espiegle, under Captain James Boorder, the 12-gun hired cutter Courier, and Juno and Latona, which sent their boats, mounted an attack on Crash, which was moored between the island of Schiermonnikoog and Groningen. At the time of attack, Crash was armed with eight 18-pounders, two 24-pounders and two 32-pounders, all carronades, and had a crew of 60. She was under the command of Lieutenant Bibel.
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