HMS Rattler (1783)
Plans for HMS Rattler | |
| History | |
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| Great Britain | |
| Name | 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 |
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| Acquired | 1792 by purchase |
| Fate | Wrecked June 1830 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Echo-class sloop |
| Tons burthen | 317, or 34148⁄94, or 343 bm |
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| Depth of hold | 12 ft 10 in (3.9 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | ship-rigged |
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HMS Rattler was a 16-gun Echo-class 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 transporting enslaved people, before she was condemned in 1802 in the Americas as unseaworthy. 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.