HMS Terror (1759)
{{other ships|HMS Terror|List of ships named Union}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Kingdom of Great Britain|naval}} | Ship name = HMS Terror | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = 21 September 1758 | Ship builder = John Barnard, Harwich | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = 7 October 1758 | Ship launched = 16 January 1759 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Sold 9 August 1774 | Ship notes = Hackman conflates this Union with the Union that had been {{HMS|Squirrel|1755|2}}{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=245}} }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag={{shipboxflag| Kingdom of Great Britain|civil}} | Ship name = Union | Ship namesake = | Ship owner =*c.1775:Peter Mestaer
| Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = 1774 by purchase | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Wrecked 20 May 1782 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption ={{sfnp|Winfield|2007|p=343}} | Ship class = {{sclass|Infernal|bomb ketch}} | Ship tons burthen= 301{{small|{{frac|83|94}}}} or 305, or 315 (bm) | Ship length = *Overall:{{cvt|91|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{cvt|27|ft|8|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship hold depth = {{cvt|12|ft|1|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion = | Ship sail plan = | Ship complement =*RN bomb ketch:60
| Ship armament =*RN bomb ketch: 6 × 6-pounder guns + 1 × 10" & 1 × 13" mortars
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HMS Terror was an 8-gun bomb ketch launched in 1759 for the British Royal Navy that it sold in 1774. New owners renamed her Union. She made two voyages as a Greenland whaler before becoming a London-based transport. She remained a transport until she was lost on 20 May 1782 off the Malabar coast of India.
Royal Navy
Commander William Bennet commissioned Terror in January 1759 and sailed for the Mediterranean on 14 April. Commander Michael Kearny replaced Bennett in August. In April 1861 Commander St John Chinnery replaced Kearny, with Terror still serving in the Mediterranean. She was converted to a sloop in 1761 and then back to a bomb in 1762. she was paid-off in March 1763. She then underwent repairs but apparently was not recommissioned.{{sfnp|Winfield|2007|p=343}}
Disposal: Terror was sold on 9 August 1774 at Deptford for £665.{{sfnp|Winfield|2007|p=343}}
Mercantile service
In the 1775 and 1776 whaling seasons, Union was engaged in the British northern whale fishery. On 12 June 1775 Union was at Greenland with two "fish".
On 2 August 1776 Union, Hudson, master, arrived at Gravesend from Greenland with four fish and 50 seals.{{cite news|title=The Marine List|work=Lloyd's List|issue=769, Ship arrival and departure (SAD) data|date=6 August 1776|hdl=2027/uc1.c3049059?urlappend=%3Bseq=156 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049059?urlappend=%3Bseq=156}}
Union first appeared in online issues of Lloyd's Register (LR) in the issue for 1776.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004741958?urlappend=%3Bseq=312] LR (1776), Seq. №16.
| class=" wikitable" |
| Year
! Master ! Owner ! Trade ! Source & notes |
|---|
| 1776
| John Dryden | London–Greenland | LR; thorough repair 1775 |
| 1778
| J.Hudson | J.Montgomery | Cork transport | LR; thorough repair 1775 |
| 1783
| Crawford | Montgomery | London transport | LR; thorough repair 1775 |
Fate
Lloyd's List reported on 8 July 1783 that the transports Union and Prudence had been lost near Tellicherry.{{cite news|title=The Marine List|work=Lloyd's List|issue=1479|date=8 July 1783|hdl=2027/uc1.c3049062?urlappend=%3Bseq=119 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049062?urlappend=%3Bseq=119}} The entry for Union in the volume for LR for 1783 bore the annotation "Lost".[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281286?urlappend=%3Bseq=380] LR (1783), Seq.№U15.
The wrecking occurred on 20 May 1782. Union and Prudence were serving as ordnance store ships when a storm drove them from Calicut roads. They were unable to clear Cotta Point and wrecked on the reefs there.{{sfnp|Horsburgh|1852|p=481|loc=fn}}
Citations
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References
- {{cite book |last=Hackman |first=Rowan |year=2001 |title=Ships of the East India Company |location=Gravesend, Kent |publisher=World Ship Society |isbn=0-905617-96-7}}
- {{cite book |last=Horsburgh |first=James |year=1852 |title=India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports |volume=1 |publisher=Kingsburg}}
- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2007|isbn=978-1844157006}}
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Category:Bomb vessels of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships built in England