HMS Coquette (1807)

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Queen Mab
Ordered4 October 1805
BuilderTemple shipbuilders, North Shields
Laid downFebruary 1806
Launched25 April 1807
RenamedHMS Coquette (6 June 1807)
FateSold 1817 into mercantile service
United Kingdom
NameCoquette (or Coquet)
Owner
  • 1817: Raines
  • 1820:Gains & Co.
  • 1823:Gale & Son
  • 1827:Deacon & Co.
Acquired1817 by purchase
FateLost
General characteristics
Class & typeCormorant class ship-sloop; reclassed 1811 as Post ship
TypeQuarterdeck ship-sloop
Tons burthen4841094, or 495 bm
Length
  • 113 ft 3+12 in (34.531 m) (overall)
  • 94 ft 2+38 in (28.7 m) (keel)
Beam31 ft 1 in (9.47 m)
Draught
  • Unladen: 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m)
  • Laden: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 5 in (2.87 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement121
Armament
  • Upper Deck: 18 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder carronades
  • Centreline: 1 × 12-pounder gun

HMS Coquette was launched in 1807 and spent her naval career patrolling in the Channel and escorting convoys. In 1813 she engaged an American privateer in a notable but inconclusive single-ship action. The Navy put Coquette in ordinary in 1814 and sold her in 1817. She became a whaler and made five whaling voyages to the British southern whale fishery before she was lost in 1835 on her sixth.