HMS Stork (1796)

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

History
UK
Name:	HMS Stork
Ordered:	6 November 1794
Builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down:	December 1795
Launched:	29 November 1796
Completed:	3 August 1797 at Deptford Dockyard
Commissioned:	December 1796
Out of service:	Sold 30 May 1816
General characteristics
Class & type:	16-gun Cormorant-class ship sloop
Tons burthen:	426 92/94 bm
Length:	108 ft 4 in (33.0 m) (gundeck) 90 ft 8.375 in (27.6 m) (keel)
Beam:	29 ft 9 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold:	9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Sloop
Complement:	121
Armament:	Upper deck: 16 × 6 pdrs + 12 × ½ pdr swivels

HMS Stork was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, ordered in November 1794 to a joint design by Sir John Henslow and William Rule, launched in 1796 at Deptford Dockyard.

Career

She was commissioned in December 1796 under Commander Richard Pearson. Under various commanding officers, she served during the rest of the French Revolutionary War and subsequently throughout the Napoleonic War, being paid off at Sheerness from service in September 1815 and sold for breaking up eight months later.

References

• Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793-1817 (Seaforth Publishing, 2007) ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.