HMS Chanticleer (1808)

Chanticleer off Valetta, Malta, by Nicolas Cammillieri
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Chanticleer
Ordered	31 December 1807
Builder	Daniel List, East Cowes
Laid down	March 1808
Launched	26 July 1808
Completed	5 October 1808
Commissioned	September 1808
Decommissioned	1848, transferred to Coastguard
Fate	Sold and broken up in June 1871 at Sheerness
General characteristics
Class and type	Cherokee-class brig
Tons burthen	237 bm
Length	90 ft 3 in (27.5 m) (gundeck) 70 ft 0+1⁄2 in (21.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam	24 ft 7 in (7.5 m)
Draught	9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) (laden); 6 ft 0 in (1.8 m) (unladen)
Depth of hold	11 ft (3.4 m)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	75 as a ship-of-war
Armament	8 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Chanticleer was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. Chanticleer was launched on 26 July 1808. She served in European waters (mainly the North Sea) in the Napoleonic Wars and was paid off and laid up at Sheerness in July 1816. She was chosen for an 1828 scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Her poor condition on her return meant that the Admiralty replaced her for the second voyage in 1831 with another Cherokee-class brig, Beagle, which subsequently became famous because of the association with Charles Darwin. Chanticleer then spent 15 years as a customs watch ship at Burnham-on-Crouch and was broken up in 1871.