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HMS Cassandra (1806)

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Name
  
HMS Cassandra

Builder
  
Bermuda

Tons burthen
  
110  ⁄94 bm

Ordered
  
2 April 1804

Commissioned
  
October 1806

Launched
  
1806

Fate
  
Capsized and sank August 1807

HMS Cassandra was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806.

She was commissioned in October 1806 under the command of Lieutenant George Le Blanc. She was ordered to carry dispatches to the squadron blockading Bordeaux. When she met up with Naiad on 13 August 1807, Le Blanc left Cassandra to take the dispatches to Naiad. Two sudden squalls rolled Cassandra over on her beam ends, capsizing her and causing her to sink stern first. Eleven men, and one woman and her child drowned.

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HMS Cassandra (1806) Wikipedia