Name HMS Curlew Laid down May 1795 Construction started May 1795 | Ordered 4 & 18 March 1795 Fate Lost 1796 Launched 16 July 1795 | |
Builder John Randall & Co., Rotherhithe Commissioned 22 July - 29 August 1795 | ||
HMS Curlew was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, commissioned in June 1795 under Commander Francis Ventris Field for Admiral Duncan's fleet.
On 31 October 1796 she disappeared during a storm in the North Sea, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.<ref>Grocott (1997), p.39.</ref.
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