HMS Hazard (1794)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hazard.
HMS Hazard was a 16-gun Royal Navy Cormorant-class ship-sloop built by Josiah & Thomas Brindley at Frindsbury, Kent, and launched in 1794. She served in the French Revolutionary Wars and throughout the Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes, and participated in a notable ship action against the French frigate Topaze, as well as in several other actions and campaigns, three of which earned her crew clasps to the Naval General Service Medal. Hazard was sold in 1817.
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Drawing of the Hazard, 1793 | |
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Name | HMS Hazard |
Ordered | 18 February 1793 |
Builder | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury |
Laid down | May 1793 |
Launched | 3 March 1794 |
Completed | 8 June 1794 |
Commissioned | April 1794 |
Stricken | sold 30 October 1817 |
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Class and type | 16-gun Cormorant-class sloop |
Tons burthen | 426 14⁄94 (bm) |
Length | 108 ft 7 in (33.1 m) (overall), 91 ft 5⁄8 in (27.8 m) (keel) |
Beam | 29 ft 9 in (9.1 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft (2.74 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Sloop |
Complement | 121 |
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