HMS Sabrina (1806)

Volcano in the Sea, as seen from His Majesty's Ship Sabrina, off the Azores, 19 June 1811, by Lt John William Miles
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Sabrina
Ordered12 July 1805
BuilderRobert Adams, Chapel, Southampton
Laid downDecember 1805
Launched1 September 1806
Completed30 November 1806 at Portsmouth Dockyard
CommissionedSeptember 1806
Out of serviceSold 18 April 1816
General characteristics
Class & type18-gun Cormorant-class sloop
Tons burthen42642⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 108 ft 3 in (33.0 m) (overall)
  • 90 ft 7 in (27.6 m) (keel)
Beam29 ft 9 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 0+1⁄2 in (2.76 m)
Sail planShip
Complement121
Armament
  • Upper deck: 16 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder long guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Sabrina was an 18-gun Royal Navy ship-sloop of the Cormorant-class, launched in 1806 at Southampton. She seems to have had a surprisingly uneventful career before the Admiralty sold her in 1816.

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