HMS Echo (1797)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Echo and Echo (ship).
HMS Echo, launched in 1797 at Dover, was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy. She served on the Jamaica station between 1799 and 1806, and there captured a small number of privateers. The Navy sold her in 1809 and she became a whaler. She made four complete whale-hunting voyages but was wrecked in the Coral Sea in April 1820 during her fifth whaling voyage.
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Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Echo |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Ordered | 19 December 1796 |
Builder | Thomas King, Dover |
Laid down | February 1797 |
Launched | September 1797 |
Commissioned | October 1797 |
Fate | Sold May 1809 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Echo |
Owner | Daniel Bennett |
Acquired | 1809 by purchase |
Fate | Wrecked 1 April 1820 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Echo-class brig |
Tons burthen | 3419⁄94,[1] or 342,[2] or 345,[3] (bm) |
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Beam | 29 ft 6 in (9.0 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 0 in (3.0 m) |
Sail plan | Ship-sloop |
Complement | 90 |
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