HMS Crocodile (1806)

	Crocodile
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Crocodile
Ordered	30 January 1805
Builder	Simon Temple, South Shields
Laid down	June 1805
Launched	19 April 1806
Commissioned	July 1806
Out of service	June 1815
Fate	Broken up 1816
General characteristics
Class and type	Banterer-class post-ship
Tons burthen	53850⁄94 (bm)
Length	118 ft 2 in (36.0 m) (overall); 98 ft 7+5⁄8 in (30.1 m) (keel)
Beam	32 ft 0+1⁄2 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 7 in (3.2 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	155
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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