HMS Rattler (1783)

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History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Rattler
Ordered	28 December 1781
Builder	Francis S. Willson, Sandgate
Laid down	March 1782
Launched	22 March 1783
Completed	By 21 July 1783 at Chatham
Commissioned	April 1784
Reinstated	October 1789
Fate	Sold out of service 1792
Great Britain
Name	Rattler
Owner	1792: Enderby & Sons; 1795:Charles John Wheeler et al.; 1798:Sinclair Halcrow; 1800:Thomas Wilson;
Acquired	1792 by purchase
Fate	Wrecked June 1830
General characteristics
Class and type	Echo-class sloop sloop
Tons burthen	317, or 34148⁄94, or 343 bm
Length	Overall: 101 ft 4 in (30.9 m); Keel: 83 ft 4+1⁄2 in (25.4 m);
Depth of hold	12 ft 10 in (3.9 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Complement	Royal Navy:125; Mercantile service; 1797:30; 1800:30;
Armament	Royal Navy; Upper deck: 16 × 6-pounder guns; QD: 4 × 12-pounder carronades; Fc: 2 × 12-pounder carronades; Mercantile service; 1797: 14 × 6&4-pounder guns; 1800: 10 × 6-pounder + 4 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades; 1805: 8 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades;

HMS Rattler was a 16-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. Launched in March 1783, she saw service in the Leeward Islands and Nova Scotia before being paid off in 1792 and sold to whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons. She made two voyages as a whaler and two as a slave ship before she was condemned in the Americas as unseaworthy in 1802. She returned to service though, sailing as a whaler in the northern whale fishery, sailing out of Leith. She continued whaling until ice crushed her in June 1830.

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