HMS Recruit (1829)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Recruit.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Recruit
Ordered	25 March 1823
Builder	HM Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	February 1825
Launched	17 August 1829
Fate	Foundered with loss of all hands in 1832
General characteristics
Type	Brig-sloop
Tons burthen	237 bm in Cherokee
Length	90 ft 0 in (27.43 m) (gundeck) 73 ft 7.625 in (22.44408 m) (keel)
Beam	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	75
Armament	2 × 6-pounder guns (bow) + 8 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Recruit was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop built at the HM Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 17 August 1829. She became a packet for the Post Office packet service, sailing from Falmouth, Cornwall.

On 29 May 1832, she sailed from Falmouth (or Bermuda – accounts differ), bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia (or Bermuda), under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Hodges, RN. She disappeared without trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the death of all aboard.

References

• Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3. OCLC 622348295.
• Pawlyn, Tony (2003). The Falmouth Packets, 1689–1851. Truran. ISBN 9781850221753.