HMS Raven (1804)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Raven
Ordered	23 May 1804
Builder	Perry, Wells and Green at Blackwall Yard
Laid down	June 1804
Launched	25 July 1804
Completed	October 1804 at Woolwich Dockyard
Commissioned	c.August 1804
In service	1804-1805
Fate	Wrecked in Cadiz Bay, 30 January 1805
General characteristics
Class and type	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	38410⁄94 bm
Length	100 ft 2 in (30.5 m) (gundeck); 77 ft 6+1⁄4 in (23.6 m) (keel);
Beam	30 ft 6+1⁄4 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 10+5⁄8 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Brig rigged
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder chase guns (before modification); 12 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 x 68-pounder carronades;

HMS Raven was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Perry, Wells and Green at Blackwall Yard and launched in 1804. Although she embodied some interesting innovations tailored for service in the area of the Straits of Gibraltar, she was wrecked before she got on station and never tested them. Her captain, the innovator, was the subject of a miscarriage of justice at his court martial for the loss of the ship from which his career never recovered.

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