HMS Echo (1797)
Echo | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Echo |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Ordered | 19 December 1796 |
| Builder | Thomas King, Dover |
| Laid down | February 1797 |
| Launched | September 1797 |
| Commissioned | October 1797 |
| Fate | Sold May 1809 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Echo |
| Owner | Daniel Bennett |
| Acquired | 1809 by purchase |
| Fate | Wrecked 1 April 1820 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Echo-class brig |
| Tons burthen | 3419⁄94, or 342, or 345, (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 29 ft 6 in (9.0 m) |
| Depth of hold | 10 ft 0 in (3.0 m) |
| Sail plan | Ship-sloop |
| Complement | 90 |
| Armament |
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HMS Echo, launched in 1797 at Dover, was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy. She served on the Jamaica station between 1799 and 1806, and there captured a small number of privateers. The Navy sold her in 1809 and she became a whaler. She made four complete whale-hunting voyages but was wrecked in the Coral Sea in April 1820 during her fifth whaling voyage.