HMS Jackal (1844)
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HMS Jackal (alternatively spelled Jackall) was a Jackal-class second-class iron paddle gunvessel of the Royal Navy.
Design
Orders for Jackal and her sister {{HMS|Lizard|1844|2}} were placed on 16 January 1844. They were designed by the builder, Robert Napier and Sons and approved on 17 April 1844 by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Symonds.
Jackal was fitted with a Napier two-cylinder side-lever steam engine driving side paddles. The engine was rated at 150 nominal horsepower and on trials developed {{convert|455|ihp|kW|lk=in}}. She was provided with two gaff-rigged masts, making her a schooner. Her armament consisted of a single 18-pounder (22cwt) carronade on a pivot mounting and two 24-pounder (13cwt) carronades.
Construction
Both ships were built at Napier's Govan yard. Jackall was built as yard number 8, and Lizard as number 9.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131221035058/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8190 HMS Jackall, Shipping Times Clydebuilt database], accessed 10 December 2011 Jackall was launched on 28 November 1844, and Lizard followed exactly a month later. After fitting out, Jackall{{'}}s first commissioning took place on 22 September 1845.
Service
After commissioning at Plymouth in 1846, Jackall served in the Mediterranean. In February 1847, she ran aground and was damaged at Lisbon, Portugal.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval Intelligence |date=13 March 1847 |page=8 |issue=19496 |column=D }} By 1851 she was a store ship at Ascension Island. She paid off at Sheerness in May 1859 and was recommissioned in December of the same year.{{cite web|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1634|title=HMS Jackall at William Loney website|accessdate=20 December 2013}}
She was again paid off at Keyham, Devon on 8 February 1864, recommissioned the next day.{{cite news |title=Devonport |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51865141/royal-george-78/ |accessdate=22 May 2020 |publisher=Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle |date=13 February 1864 |location=Portsmouth, Hampshire |page=4}}
By 1864 she was employed on fishery protection duties off the west coast of Scotland. On 11 April 1872, she ran aground at the mouth of the River Aray. She was refloated and anchored in Inveraray Bay.{{Cite news |title=Her Majestey's Ship Jackal Ashore |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=13 April 1872 |issue=30685 |page=6 }} In early 1883 Jackal landed a detachment of Royal Marines at Meanish Pier in Glendale, Skye to assist police in arresting participants in the Crofters' War, a dispute between landowners and tenants over increases to rents and evictions implemented to clear land for large-scale farming operations.{{cite news |title=The Crofters' War and the Napier Commission |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22553418 |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=BBC News |date=21 May 2013}}
Fate
Jackal was sold for breaking up in November 1887.{{cite book |last=Colledge|title=Ships of the Royal Navy|page=117}}
Notes
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References
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- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
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{{Early Royal Navy paddle gunvessels}}
{{1847 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Ships built on the River Clyde
Category:Victorian-era gunboats of the United Kingdom
Category:Gunvessels of the Royal Navy