HMS Crocodile (1806)

Crocodile
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Crocodile
Ordered30 January 1805
BuilderSimon Temple, South Shields
Laid downJune 1805
Launched19 April 1806
CommissionedJuly 1806
Out of serviceJune 1815
FateBroken up 1816
General characteristics
Class & typeBanterer-class post-ship
Tons burthen53850⁄94 (bm)
Length118 ft 2 in (36.0 m) (overall); 98 ft 7+5⁄8 in (30.1 m) (keel)
Beam32 ft 0+1⁄2 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 7 in (3.2 m)
PropulsionSail
Complement155
Armament
  • Designed
    • Upper deck (D):22 × 9-pounder guns
    • QD:6 × 24-pounder carronades
    • Fc:2 × 6-pounder Chase guns + 2 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Later
    • UD:22 × 32-pounder carronades
    • QD:2 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades
    • Fc:2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Crocodile was a 22-gun sixth-rate post-ship launched in South Shields in 1806. She was broken up at Portsmouth in October 1816.

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