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HMS Quail (1806)

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country	United Kingdom
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name	HMS Quail
ordered	11 December 1805
builder	Custance & Stone, Great Yarmouth
laid_down	February 1806
launched	26 April 1806
fate	Sold 1816
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country	United Kingdom
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name	Quail
acquired	1816 by purchase
fate	Last listed 1826
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class	Cuckoo-class schooner
tons_burthen	75 (bm)
length	*56 ft (overall)
*{{convert	42	ft	4+1/8	in	m	1	abbr	on}} (keel)
beam	18 ft
hold_depth	8 ft
sail_plan	Schooner
propulsion	Sails
complement	20
armament	4 × 12-pounder carronades

42 ft (keel)

'*HMS Quail''' was a Royal Navy *Cuckoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. Custance & Stone built her at Great Yarmouth and launched her in 1806. Her decade-long career appears to have been relatively uneventful. She was sold in 1816 into mercantile service, possibly to serve as a whaler, though she ended up trading in the South Atlantic until late in 1819. She was last listed in 1826.

Service

Quail was commissioned in June 1806 under Lieutenant Patrick Lowe for the Channel. In 1807 she was under Lieutenant Isaac Charles Smith Collett for the North Sea. On 6 July Quail captured Drie Gebroders.

She also was at the surrender of the Danish Fleet after the Battle of Copenhagen on 7 September. Quail shared, with many other ships in the British fleet at Copenhagen, in the prize money for several captures in August: Hans and Jacob (17 August), Die Twee Gebroders (21 August), and Aurora, Paulina, and Ceres (30 and 31 August).

On 16 November , of London, was returning to London from Petersburg when she was on shore on the Middle Ground. Quail and boats from were able to get Leeds off after she had been stuck for 36 hours.

In 1809 Lieutenant John Osborn took command. On 19 May 1809 he captured Jonge Jacob, P. Hansen, master. On 25 July Quail was in company and the hired armed cutter Albion when Albion captured Maria Catherina. Osborn sailed Quail for the Mediterranean on 11 September 1811.

In April 1814 Quail was under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Stewart. On 10 August 1815 Quail arrived at Plymouth with dispatches from the Mediterranean. She had left Gibraltar on 16 July.

Disposal: Quail was paid off into ordinary in October 1815, and put up for sale at Plymouth on 14 December. She was sold at Plymouth, or Yarmouth on 11 January 1816 for £260.

Mercantile service

Quail appeared in the Register of Shipping (RS) volume for 1818.

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source
1818	J.Britten	Captain & Co.	London–Southern Fishery	RS

The designation of her trade being "Southern Fishery" would normally signal employment as a whaler. Quail did sail to the South Atlantic, but there is no indication that she engaged in whaling or sealing. In 1817 and 1818 she appeared in Lloyd's List(('))s ship arrival and departure (SAD) data sailing to and from Buenos Aires, Montevideo, the Cape of Good Hope, Rio de Janeiro, and Maldonado under a succession of masters, Britten (or Briton), Tulloch, Hern, and Hunter. There was no mention of Quail arriving or leaving anywhere after 1819.

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source
1826	J.Britten	Captain & Co.	London–Southern Fishery	LR

Fate

Quail was last listed in Lloyd's Register (LR) and the RS in the 1826 volumes.

Notes

Citations

References

{{London Gazette. (27 September 1808)
{{London Gazette. (11 July 1809)
{{London Gazette. (11 May 1813)
(8 December 1807). "The Marine List". Lloyd's List.
{{London Gazette. (24 April 1810)
{{London Gazette. (7 July 1810)
(10 August 1815). "The Marine List". Lloyd's List.
{{London Gazette. (5 December 1815)
[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024214259?urlappend=%3Bseq=529 ''RS'' (1818), Seq.No.Q1.]

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